04.30.09: the business of death

1: i told my mother i'd want to be stuffed and mounted and placed in the front yard, with big teeth and claws, if they fit.

2: or i could take you down to new orleans and have a voodoo priestess reanimate you, so that you could shuffle around mindlessly. and vacuum.

1: i'd want to be helpful.

4 comments:

  1. wabes8:12 AM

    hemingway (which is as predictable as his prominence on said dude lists), for me, i guess, _a farewell to arms_, though i should probably revisit something else of this that i first read 10 years ago. _american pastoral_ always comes back around as a book where women aren't allowed to do or be too much except ruination, but that's the extent of my roth.

    i'll be thinking of other meta-masculine possibilities as we drive through ohio today.

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  2. Amanda Bruns10:52 AM

    1. Moby Dick
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    3. Boots

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  3. jacob6:16 AM

    1. london fields, martin amis
    2. art's website mentions that his library was updated in january 2009, but currently stops in 2007. maybe he keeps the list in a notebook and then transfers it to the web? this would make sense, considering he's been keeping this list since the 1960s (!).

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  4. lauren7:02 AM

    fine work, jacob, and fie on me for neglecting to read that part of his site (good thing i'm not a fact checker, eh?). that brings us to a new question:

    04 what d'you think's on the cover of art's notebook?

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