February 2012
25 posts
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Discog of a WYRM
I stumbled across the discography of WYRM and it gave me uncanny chills in terms of reminding me of the COMPLETE FILMOGRAPHY OF JAMES O. INCANDENZA in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Pulled from this wonderful website, where you can get the LAST installment of Zane’s conceptual prolix: http://www.topinetwork.com/?zx=f6f714fe1dab7618.
WYRM HISTORY (WYRM / ALLAN ZANE) WYRM has...
On Art as A Work
Tunis. Light. A light not so much powerful as plentiful. Even the shadows are full of light. The air itself seems a luminous fluid in which everything steeps — you dive into it, you swim through it. This land of pleasure satisfies without calming desire; indeed, every satisfaction merely exalts it.
A land liberated from works of art. I despise those who can acknowledge beauty only when...
On Sincerity
Everything is within Man. She sensed already what I was struggling to discover; and when I reproached her for believing too often in the virtues she herself had invented in the people we knew, she replied: “You’re never satisfied until you’ve made them reveal some vice. Don’t you realize that our own eyes magnify and exaggerate whatever they happen to see — that we...
On Happiness
“Of the thousand forms of life, each of us can know only one. Envying another man’s happiness is madness: you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it. Happiness isn’t something that comes ready-made to order. I’m leaving tomorrow; I know — I’ve tried to cut my happiness to my own measure.
“I’ve cut my happiness to my measure too!”...
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The Nietzchean Complaint With Individualism
“…the newspapers… seem amazed today that a man of discredited tastes can have any virtues at all. I cannot apply to myself the distinctions and the reservations they insist on making — I exist only as a whole man. I lay claim to nothing but my own nature, and the pleasure I take in an action is my clue to its propriety.”
“That can take you too far,” I...
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January 2012
30 posts
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The third rule of Fight Club is to have fun and try your best.
Three Pieces of Formatting Advice for Writers
I’ve just gone through the process of submitting some short stories — for other writers out there, I’d figure I’d toss out a few tips that I learned today which may save you some busywork.
1 — Publishers care about formatting; to create a manuscript that EVERYONE will accept, do the following:
a. Use this template — its by no means universal, but if...
Check out my story "Privateer" on IEET! →
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“The Ancients said that the animals are taught through their organs; let me add...”
“Will I ever be able to say, “today it writes,” just like “today it rains,”...”
– Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (via tangara)
Disgusting and Violent Racism is Alive and Well in... →
Thomas Trueblood's UM Dept. of Elocution and... →
Wow... Gotye + "Film Clip" = Win →