I’m sick of waiting around for these guys to be charged with defrauding the tax payers of Arizona. When will someone run them out of town on a rail?
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OT but Trump’s AZ border wall is falling apart. Quelle Surprise!
http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/082121_border_wall_damaged/
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My sisters and their kids live there still.
I’m planning on moving back there some time after I retire because of the cost of living.
I figure if I could handle the culture shock moving from there to NYC when I was 40 I can handle it the other direction when I’m 70.
& even after this whole time the place in terms of the geography, the air, the light, etc. is still inside me.
Despite living on the East Coast for 25 years I grew up in many places west of the Mississippi and there is just something that is in me on a cellular level from that which will never dissipate—the atmospherics.
Even the politics of the place doesn’t take that away.
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Hahaha! I’m a third of the way through Gravity’s Rainbow. It’s amazing, like 400 novellas welded together.
Requires a certain stamina from the reader.
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I know people who live in that area that are probably happy about that.
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That’s for sure.
I need to re-read it.
First time I read it was in 1977.
Back then there wasn’t a wealth of information (concordance stuff for reference I mean) available and somehow I got through it.
Probably warped me for life.
I’ve read it a couple of times since then, but it’s been at least 20 years ago now and I’m due for a re-visit.
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Yes. Google is my friend. I too read it in 1974 (I think). I remember it as somber and it is anything but. So much easier to appreciate now.
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I am from Minnesota. I have lived in Seattle, the Oregon coast, Tucson…and Asia. I swear there is nothing like the sky in Minnesota in summer. Nothing like it at all.
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And it also turns out the Cosmic Snicker never sleeps.
Make checks payable to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Dang, there you go - a trigger warning would have been nice!
“If you visit American city,
You will find it very pretty.
Just two things of which you must beware:
Don’t drink the water and don’t breathe the air!”
…
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I live over 100 miles away from the border wall in question, and I’m happy about it seeing the floodgates open.
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I’m a third of the way through Gravity’s Rainbow.
Gravity’s Rainbow was my favorite book in my twenties, which was the 1980s. I spent the summer after college constructing and typing a character index for the novel. I used the basic criteria for movie credits: if it speaks or is individually described in the narration, it gets listed.
By my count, Pynchon controlled 398 characters, from 1: “Captain Geoffrey ‘Pirate’ Prentice (wrapped in a blanket), p. 5” … to 398: “a passerby (who jeers Richard), p. 881.” It’s all typed out on 17 pages of Eaton’s Berkshire Bond. I could fax it to you, if you’d like. : )
It’s a fun, rollicking, trippy book.
But, in truth, my tastes have changed significantly since my twenties. I tried re-reading it a few years ago and found it to be emotionally shallow. It’s dazzling, but it’s no Mrs. Dalloway. And that’s sort of how I feel about Ulysses now, too. However, I got all weepy in my middle age, a late-comer to Jane Austen and books that make heartbreak the central line of the narrative.
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Given their politics the Covid was extremely likely so I tend ti believe it is real. What they light to be dying from is extreme embarrassment.
Now if your attitude could only be shared on the right wing sites quite a few lives might be saved.
They think they are seen as courageous when most of us think they are foolish losers competing for the Darwin Awards.
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Out of touch with reality …It’s sometimes difficult to discern whether this is due to delusions or simply to.death.cult membership. Operationally this is a distinction without a difference.
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Yes, Staghorn sumac. In fact you can make a decent lemonade from those red sumac flower clusters. As well, in mid winter, when there’s not much else to forage and eat, the robins and beautiful BLUEBIRDS! spend days trying to get a meal off these sumac flowers.
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There is also the old classic “the dog ate it.”
Yes, but what is?
That novel is incredible.
I once heard Richard Ellman say he thought To the Lighthouse was better in some ways than Ulysses in its use of stream of consciousness and representation of how thought works.
Woolf is an incredibly high standard.
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