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On the #blog this week, I'm thinking about another #quote I just couldn't use, this time from A. R....

On the #blog this week, I'm thinking about another #quote I just couldn't use, this time from A. R. Ammons:

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/another-close-quotational-call/

#poetry #essay #writing #reading

On the #blog this week: suspecting a feel-good #quote was either made up or misattributed, I plowed through paperback and e-versions of...

On the #blog this week: suspecting a feel-good #quote was either made up or misattributed, I plowed through paperback and e-versions of Henry Miller's Black Spring. My suspicions were confirmed:

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/catching-out-the-quote/

#reading #books #literature @books @bookstodon

Up at ye olde #blog , I'm confronting my appreciative partial confusion with Alan Garner's Red...

Up at ye olde #blog , I'm confronting my appreciative partial confusion with Alan Garner's Red Shift:

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/seeing-reddish-the-best-that-one-can/

#books #review @bookstodon

Over at the #blog this week, I'm pondering why I'm ambivalent about #series, as opposed to standalone works. (This, in the wake of...

Over at the #blog this week, I'm pondering why I'm ambivalent about #series, as opposed to standalone works. (This, in the wake of reading the first of Solvej Balle's seven-volume series.) As usual, no definitive answers!

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/just-one-damn-book-after-another/

#reading #books #literature

Over on the #blog this midwinter day, I'm wondering what motivates #plagiarism. I've found no answers, of course, but it does help...

Over on the #blog this midwinter day, I'm wondering what motivates #plagiarism. I've found no answers, of course, but it does help to blow off some steam.

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/pondering-the-whys-of-word-thievery/

#writing

Hey, hey! Many thanks to TheNewVerse.News for publishing a #poem of mine!https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2024/12/ai.html@poetry #poetry...

Hey, hey! Many thanks to TheNewVerse.News for publishing a #poem of mine!

https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2024/12/ai.html

@poetry #poetry #writing

Susan Sontag, Leonid Tsypkin, David Malouf: they've all got me thinking on the #blog about #writing for the desk drawer then and...

Susan Sontag, Leonid Tsypkin, David Malouf: they've all got me thinking on the #blog about #writing for the desk drawer then and now:

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/tsypkin-sontag-and-the-ol-desk-drawer/

#literature #reading #books @bookstodon

New over at the #blog: I'm thinking about a return to #music listening, thanks in part to...

New over at the #blog: I'm thinking about a return to #music listening, thanks in part to Destroyer:

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/and-now-back-to-the-music/

#essay

I'm back on the #blog again after a couple of weeks away; I'm looking this time at #diary #writing, thanks to some observations from...

I'm back on the #blog again after a couple of weeks away; I'm looking this time at #diary #writing, thanks to some observations from Thomas Mallon and Édouard Louis.

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/what-were-doing-with-diaries/

#Blogging again: this time, I'm thinking about #ByungChulHan and The Crisis of #Narration to puzzle out a relative's antipathy to...

#Blogging again: this time, I'm thinking about #ByungChulHan and The Crisis of #Narration to puzzle out a relative's antipathy to #magic.

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/narrating-my-distress/

#essay #blog

Osip Mandelstam's Journey to Armenia: incredible phrasing, even if we could argue about interpretations of various #artists: Mandelstam...

Osip Mandelstam's Journey to Armenia: incredible phrasing, even if we could argue about interpretations of various #artists:

Mandelstam "took a dislike to Matisse, a rich man's artist. The red paint of his canvasses fizzes like soda. He knows nothing of the joy of ripening fruits."

"Van Gogh spits blood like a suicide in furnished rooms... His canvases, smeared with the omelette of an accident, are as clear as visual aides—as the charts in a Berlitz School."

#quote #books #literature #art

This week on the #blog : the joy of #drag and its celebration of...

This week on the #blog : the joy of #drag and its celebration of possibilities:

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/fabulous-visions-and-joyful-inventions/

#essay

Blown away as I was by Munir Hachemi's Living Things, this week's #blog post revels in the inspiration it—along with Osip...

Blown away as I was by Munir Hachemi's Living Things, this week's #blog post revels in the inspiration it—along with Osip Mandelstam and Byung-Chul Han—provides on #stories and #storytelling, weird assumptions about #intelligence and #ambition, and the comfort of #books and the communities they might enable.

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/close-your-eyes-and-live-through-your-tale/

@bookstodon #reading #essay #literature

Boy, am I tired—but it's given me food for thought on the #blog. I'm considering #rest and standing up for so-called "brain...

Boy, am I tired—but it's given me food for thought on the #blog. I'm considering #rest and standing up for so-called "brain work."

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/a-knackered-cheer-for-real-sentience/

#writing #essay

Over at the #blog, and just in time for the #HeatWave over here, I'm looking at the difficulties of talking about #conservation and/or...

Over at the #blog, and just in time for the #HeatWave over here, I'm looking at the difficulties of talking about #conservation and/or the #Environment, especially where Aldo Leopold's concerned. Now back to sitting in front of the fans and away from sunny windows!

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/a-naturalist-and-his-barbs/

#essay #reading #books #review @bookstodon

Back to the #blog: thanks to Alberto Toscano, Ernst Bloch, and—wait for it—Thomas Müntzer—I've gained new insight this week into...

Back to the #blog: thanks to Alberto Toscano, Ernst Bloch, and—wait for it—Thomas Müntzer—I've gained new insight this week into back-to-#school nostalgia, and the desire to carry a worthy burden.

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/in-search-of-a-worthy-burden/

#writing #essay #education

Forcing myself to finish Nicholas Berdyaev's "Dostoevsky" was rewarded with the most hyperbolic final sentence of a book...

Forcing myself to finish Nicholas Berdyaev's "Dostoevsky" was rewarded with the most hyperbolic final sentence of a book I've encountered in quite a while. Try living up to this claim, #writers :

"So great is the worth of Dostoievsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world; and he will bear witness for his countrymen at the last judgment of the nations."

Bold.

#quote #reading #books #literature @bookstodon

Over on the #blog today, I'm getting to Kerouac via—Dostoevsky? Sort of. Head on over for thoughts on #writers who've become a...

Over on the #blog today, I'm getting to Kerouac via—Dostoevsky? Sort of. Head on over for thoughts on #writers who've become a part of you:

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/brief-reflections-from-an-old-believer/

#literature #essay

After a hiatus spent in the #math study cave, I'm back posting on the #blog — this time, about #gamification in exams and memories of...

After a hiatus spent in the #math study cave, I'm back posting on the #blog — this time, about #gamification in exams and memories of the unique US #education quackery known as Channel One:

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/gamy-calculations/

#essay

Pounding my brain with #math study this week left me with thoughts on #education, #patience, and #humility, with help from Simone...

Pounding my brain with #math study this week left me with thoughts on #education, #patience, and #humility, with help from Simone Weil:

https://zwieblein.bearblog.dev/back-to-the-blackboard-revisiting-tests-in-patience/

#essay #writing #blog