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"The professional critic takes the signature posture of the age—that curious mixture of derision and addiction, indifference and engagement, nausea and engorgement before the buffet of contemporary culture—and turns it into a career." (via aldaily) (oops--sorry about the Douthatfus quote, i hadn't finished reading the article)

"ditty bag"

wheel in the sky · scatterlings
lasso a tangle of twigs
scuttlesome atoll

this dark dingle has claws
& questions that require you
to dance quicksand

jackdaws judge my big
sphinx of quartz · sferics
jinx the atmosphere

i trounce without a trace
the harsh bright happenstance
of a cloud treehouse

"I remember one [lecture] I attended, attended by Professor Tolkien. I do not remember a single word he said but at a certain point he recited, and magnificently, a long passage of Beowulf. I was spellbound."

"I shall wrassle me up a future or die trying." --Zora Neale Hurston

Music from Saharan Cellphones.