Categories
Currently reading
Data from Goodreads
Not currently reading anything.
Tag Archives: loneliness
David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008
Instead of reiterating what’s been said, I’ll just say it’s all still true. DFW in 1993 Review of Contemporary Fiction interview by Larry McCaffery: “…part of what we humans come to art for is an experience of suffering… We all … Continue reading
Posted in literature
Tagged community, david foster wallace, franzen, loneliness, sterne
Comments Off on David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008
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
Posted in history/memory, literature
Tagged delillo, dictionary, food, franzen, joyce, loneliness, new york, proust, pyrrhic, the mall, witold rybczynski
Comments Off on How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
why we live together just to die all alone
There’s dying alone, then there’s dying alone. Some people’s bodies are never identified or claimed. The people whose jobs are to track down the bodies’ families sometimes can’t. (Or sometimes the family can’t afford a funeral, which is another issue.) … Continue reading
Posted in los angeles
Tagged cemeteries, death, loneliness
Comments Off on why we live together just to die all alone
Joshua Tree
Cottonwood Spring trail map a lonesome cloud lotsa similar scenes: nice sky a place to sit oasis from afar oasis from anear
upon re-re-reading The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by Rainer Maria Rilke I loved it this time. (There is truth in inconsistency, is my claim for today.) writing, isolation, communication, connection “And I mean to write no more letters. What’s the use of telling anyone that I am … Continue reading
Posted in literature
Tagged god(s), letter writing, loneliness, rilke
Comments Off on upon re-re-reading The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge