LORNA SORE

THE SOCIAL EXPERIENCE

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

In high school I would look through college catalogs and see pictures of students laughing together in the dorms and I wouldn’t want to go to that school anymore.

This morning in the paper I saw this huge picture of condo residents laughing together and I didn’t want to move to New York anymore.

“There’s talk of using the pool for water volleyball. We’ll have Monday night sports. We have a spring fling coming up in May.”

[NYT]

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EEEEE EEE EEEE

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

Tao Lin is a sensation. He’s even in the new Noon. I enjoy his blog Reader of Depressing Books. The audio is not very good, but the third poem is very good.

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VARIETIES OF DISTURBANCE

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

I can’t wait for the new Lydia Davis collection Varieties of Disturbance. It won’t come out until May 15 so to tide us over here’s a favorite of her stories with a loose Easter theme.

“Happiest Moment”
If you ask her what is a favorite story she has written, she will hesitate for a long time and then say it may be this story that she read in a book once: an English language teacher in China asked his Chinese student to say what was the happiest moment in his life. The student hesitated for a long time. At last he smiled with embarrassment and said that his wife had once gone to Beijing and eaten duck there, and she often told him about it, and he would have to say the happiest moment of his life was her trip, and the eating of the duck.

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