Thomas Israel Hopkins's Mimeograph 2.0 Paradigm!

Those city lights.

And the American flag.

Leopards!

As a fan of pirates (ridiculous mythical pirates, of course, not real, modern-day pirates, who are truly scary and evil), I was thrilled to discover in the OED not only that the word “argh” once actually existed in the English language, but also that the definition is awesome. I think needs to be brought back [...]

[…] I think art’s project is fundamentally meliorative. The aim of meditating about the world is finally to change the world. It is this meliorative aspect of literature that provides its ethical dimension. We are all Upton Sinclairs, even that Hamlet, Stéphane Mallarmé. —Donald Barthelme, “Not-Knowing,” Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews (Kim Herzinger, ed.)

From the authors’ concluding remarks: …people tend to hold overly optimistic and miscalibrated views about themselves. We propose that those with limited knowledge in a domain suffer a dual burden: Not only do they reach mistaken conclusions and make regrettable errors, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it. Although we feel [...]

Mud and sunlight.

I realize now, is that you have to be walking slowly. Or not walking at all, just standing, looking, or wobbling vaguely across the sidewalks like a drunk, or an outoftowner, or meandering aimlessly, a flâneur. This is difficult to do, when you’re always late for class.