Tag Archives: woolf

variations on a theme: life

Posted on July 7, 2008 by twotreatises

“In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, and his fame doubtful. … Continue reading →

Posted in literature | Tagged diderot, douglas adams, john irving, joseph campbell, library, marcus aurelius, mary shelley, ralph ellison, shakespeare, the book of job, the matrix, the simpsons, vonnegut, woolf | Comments Off

The Curtain by Milan Kundera

Posted on May 18, 2008 by twotreatises

This 2005 book, subtitled “An Essay in Seven Parts” is a pretty good follow-up to Kundera’s 1988 collection of interviews and essays The Art of the Novel. While The Art of the Novel focuses more on (as the title implies) … Continue reading →

Posted in history/memory, literature | Tagged don quixote, fielding, flaubert, joyce, kafka, kundera, nationalism, rabelais, sterne, tolstoy, woolf | Comments Off

on history, time, and memory

Posted on August 7, 2007 by twotreatises

“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 →

Posted in history/memory, literature | Tagged delillo, didion, eliot, potok, sartre, vonnegut, woody allen, woolf | Comments Off

a miracle of a phrase (or two)

Posted on February 15, 2007 by twotreatises

or, Why I Don’t Write Ivan Turgenev, Rudin: “Everything is drenched in poetry—everything breathes beauty and vitality.” (Rudin) p. 77 Ivan Turgenev John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire: “[He] was a young man who imagined he could do anything he … Continue reading →

Posted in literature | Tagged coupland, delany, delillo, george elliot, john irving, myla goldberg, potok, salinger, turgenev, woolf | Comments Off

cityscope: a compilation of obsessions

Posted on December 31, 2006 by twotreatises

mini-book/zine i made for my friends, december 2006 ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ******

Posted in art/architecture, history/memory, language, literature, los angeles, movies/photography, music, philosophy/religion | Tagged albert speer, california, chatham, david markson, debord, delany, dictionary, didion, eliot, eternal return, fante, flowers, gaiman, hollywood, iggy pop, kundera, library, nathanael west, o'keeffe, palimpsest, park, plato, public transit, rilke, robert frost, ruins, shelley, watergate, west los angeles, woodward, woolf, yogi berra | Comments Off