I know she’s everywhere right now but this article is a diamond in the rough. Great writing by Liel Leibovitz. Enjoy!
The Unbearable Lightness of Girls
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by L♥lli
21 Nov
Spiderwoman
“In real life, I identify with the victim. . . . In my art, I am the murderer. I feel for the ordeal of the murderer, the man who has to live with his conscience.”
Ph. Annie Leibovitz
Here is a book that can turn something disturbing into something completely relaxing. Get into it and you will love her too.
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by L♥lli
3 Nov
Baker and the shoestring
“…and when I crouched forward, over the papers on my desk, to reach the untied shoelace, I experienced a faint surge of pride in being able to tie a shoe without looking at it. At that moment, Dave, Sue, and Steve, on their way to lunch, waved as they passed by my office. Right in the middle of tying a shoe as I was, I couldn’t wave nonchalantly back, so I called out a startled, overheartly “Have a good one, guys!” They disappeared; I pulled the left shoelace tight, and bingo, it broke.
The curve of incredulousness and resignation I rode out at the moment was a kind caused in life by a certain class of events, disruptions of physical routines such as: reaching a top step but thinking there is another step there, and stamping down on the loading….
In the aftermath of the broken-shoelace disappointment, irrationally, I pictured Dave, Sue, and Steve as I had just seen them and thought, “Cheerful assholes!” because I had probably broken the shoelace by transferring the social energy that I had had to muster in order to deliver a chummy “Have a good one!” to them from my awkward shoe-tier’s crouch in to the force I had used in pulling the shoelace.” - The Mezzanine
Nicholson Baker never ceases to make me laugh..
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by L♥lli
19 Sep
There would be nothing funny in it, surely
Being nearly four years old, [Laura] was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term “human” a wide sense): but she had not altogether ceased to be a baby: and babies of course are not human – they are animals, and have a very ancient and ramified culture, as cats have, and fishes, and even snakes: the same in kind as these, but much more complicated and vivid, since babies are, after all, one of the most developed species of the lower vertebrates.
[...] It is true they look human – but not so human, to be quite fair, as many monkeys.
Subconsciously, too, everyone recognises they are animals – why else do people always laugh when a baby does some action resembling the human, as they would at a praying mantis? If the baby was only a less-developed man, there would be nothing funny in it, surely
- Richard Hughes (A High Wind in Jamaica)
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by L♥lli
10 Aug
Black Matters
“It is as if I had been looking at a fishbowl – the glide and flick of the golden scales, the green tip, the bolt of white careening back from the gills; the castles at the bottom, surrounded by pebbles and tiny, intricate fronds of green; the barely disturbed water, the flecks of waste and food, the tranquil bubbles traveling to the surface – and suddenly I saw the bowl, the structure that transparently (and invisibly) permits the ordered life it contains to exist in the larger world.” – Toni Morrison (‘Black Matters’ is part of a collection of essays called ‘Playing in the Dark’)
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by L♥lli
1 Jul
Levin
“Levin had often noticed in discussions between the most intelligent people that after enormous efforts and endless logical subtleties and talk, the disputants finally became aware that what they had been at such pains to prove to one another had long ago, from the beginning of the argument, been known to both, but that they liked different things, and would not define what they liked for fear of it being attacked. He had often had the experience of suddenly in the middle of a discussion grasping what it was the other liked and at once liking it too, and immediately he found himself agreeing, and then all the arguments fell away useless. Sometimes the reverse happened: he at last expressed what he liked himself, which he had been arguing to defend and, chancing to express it well and genuinely, had found the person he was disputing with suddenly agree. ” – Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina
One of the most enriching books I wish I had read and understood much earlier in life..
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