Take the wheel and drive by

[sovay]

I would strongly prefer to have started the year without respiratory crud. I travel tomorrow nonetheless. Have some things from the internet.

1. I love the idea of a ship's biscuit love token.

2. I had never heard the story of Lee Sallows and the self-enumerating pangram.

3. This poem sticks with me: Martín Espada, "Vivas to Those Who Have Failed: The Paterson Silk Strike, 1913."

4. Worth reading in full, especially the parentheses: Matthew Cheney, "The Narrative of Dead Narrative."

5. I can't remember which recent news item provoked me to leave myself the note "FUCK THE GHOST OF JOSEPH BREEN AND ALL HIS NECROMANCERS," but I'm sure it's still relevant.

I understand the concept of statistical outliers, but I still have a very hard time believing in the Boomer-Millennial culture wars when my father calls me up to discuss in detail the fourth-season finale of Lucifer (2016–).

Comments

[sovay]

I've dipped into the Matthew Cheney in the way I do often with links--read here, scan, read a little more, jump back, jump forward.

That's a very anti-narrative way to read it!

(We need to give your respiratory crud a notice of eviction...)

I was doing all right on the respiratory front until this month! And now I have no energy and I need a lot.

[asakiyume]

That's a very anti-narrative way to read it!

Hah! You're right. I love a good narrative, but when it comes to things that are designed to inform and that don't rely on (or give me the impression of not relying on) linear reading, I create my own mental pastiche of the thing by reading here and there. Eventually I may read the whole thing and then go back to get the author's intended flow--or it may be evident anyway, even with my scattershot way of reading.