across the concrete fields of man

today a policeperson almost gave me a ticket. he didn’t, though, and gave it to the speeding car in front of me instead. for this i am Thankful.
i’m reading a novel by kristeva, the first of her work i’ve actually read firsthand. the first few pages surprised me, a shooting a stabbing-murder and an historian [...]

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“from the internet”

…”on the earth” already means “under the sky.” Both of these also mean “remaining before the divinities” and include a “belonging to men’s being with one another.” By a primal oneness the four – earth and sky, divinities and mortals – belong together in one.
Earth is the serving bearer, blossoming and fruiting, spreading out in [...]

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believe in that and it’ll be alright

it is spring.
the giant eucalyptus trees near our house have survived another winter of bending and saoking and lashing in the storms that batter in from the sea.
all day long they, and the oaks, the baby willows, the peppers, the clump bushes, the smallest weeds, have been bursting and blooming and showing off clusters of [...]

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cuz chivalry ain’t deaad

after i finish essays, write exams, do presentations, whichever, i immediately blank and can’t remember what i said/wrote, let alone whether it was good.
but that is fine. because it is reading week.
it is snowing. and warm. the people from CBC bought me coffee. i’m listening to kareem salama, who makes me smile. and i’m going [...]

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beautiful creatures

i actually think i might make it. it’s 3.17am now, which gives me another half hour to write a last page and edit the 333 paper; then i will read cohan and shires and come up with things to say on my englisch midterm, which i will then write; then i will skip 368 to brainstorm [...]

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distillery.

1) so i made up two jokes today while vacuuming. i think they’re pretty funny.
a) (there are people who talk in class with sentences like: “you know, i’ve been reading a lot of foucault lately…”) “philosophy snobs?” “yes. otherwise known as: kristeva meets the student code.”
b) (i used a version of this one in my [...]

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to depart not to arrive from

it’s 1.20 am, and slowly this essay is taking form.
it was thursday today. i left the house shortly after 8am, got back shortly before 8pm. in that span i had forty minutes of free time.
i have tea.
but when i walked barefoot with my brother on the hot trails of oran, i felt the sole of [...]

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to read.

the act of reading this far automatically invokes a strong individual moral obligation for you to add something to the list.
reading it twice imposes the obligation twice. et cetera.
waiting for the barbarians
kashf al-mahjub (al-hujwiri)
hallaj: saint and martyr of islam (massignon)
anatomy of criticism (frye)(the whole thing, this time.)
erewhon – butler (samuel)
phil in a time of terror [...]

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between

the divide last night was between staying here – cocoon of light, of noise and of warmth – and advancing outside to meet the moon.
meaning: the cold, the quiet, the darkness.
it was every decision which has ever, will ever, and must ever be made.

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