June 2012
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May 2012
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are there any love letters as filthy as joyce to nora? the greater the disparity between the sexuality of the writer’s work and the sexuality of the letters, the better. my platonic ideal would be, like, wittgenstein talking about fisting.
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ann: but i met him through my friend k——, who is not form nola but went to tulane and just loves the place and hse's doing her dissertation on yats
ann: she's a linguistics phd
ann: so she interviewed me about yats, where to find yats if they still exist, what is a yat
ann: and i talked at length about the word as a slur and how i think it's evolved into a citywide identity that lost its whole classist connotation
ann: and how mom's generation worked to lose their accent because pepole assume they were uneducated and how kelsey et al still get shit in BR post k
ann: etc. went on for a long time about all the nuances of it
ann: then m—— comes in, sits down
ann: and she's like, so what's a yat
ann: and he's like, oh like, white trash.
April 2012
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“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain...”
– Stephen Jay Gould
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March 2012
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