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How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen

phrases I liked: in “My Father’s Brain”: the brain as “lovely and postmodern” p. 10 “medicalization of human experience” p. 19 “ever-expanding nomenclature of victimhood”p. 19 “My sense of private selfhood turns out to have been illusory” p. 20 “the … Continue reading

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Cosmopolis by Don Delillo

“What was there to say? It was a matter of silences, not words.” p. 5 “He was thinking about automatic teller machines. The term was aged and burdened by its own historical memory.” p. 54 “It is what people think … Continue reading

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baseball facts

I finally watched Eight Men Out Kenesaw Mountain Landis served as a federal judge then the first commissioner of Major League Baseball; kept baseball from integrating Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson became the first African-American major league baseball player of the … Continue reading

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on history, time, and memory

“In November of 1884, after the election of Grover Cleveland to the presidency, the Times continued to maintain for eleven days that the president-elect was James G. Blaine, Harrison Gray Otis’s candidate.” Joan Didion in “Times Mirror Square” in After … Continue reading

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Catastrophe in Los Angeles (quotes)

“Only catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we need them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, earthquakes, mass killings, etcetera. We can … Continue reading

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