a very sincere failure
September 15th, 2008
I finished The Black Prince and started Murdoch’s The Sacred and Profane Love Machine. For school I’m reading Remainder by the International Necronautical Society’s Tom McCarthy. (Their First Manifesto declared that “Death is a type of space, which we intend to map, enter, colonize and, eventually, inhabit”).
In 2001, Tom McCarthy told an interviewer: “…metaphor is a sort of vehicle that autodestructs even before the task is quite done. It will carry meaning a certain distance and then the vehicle sinks, founders and again you’re left with a very sincere failure…”
I read The Easter Parade by Richard Yates at some point in the last few weeks and it was the shiz and I love Emily Grimes & the name Grimes. I learned that Yates has a book called Young Hearts Crying.
FLORIDA: Last summer, Lehman Brothers hired Jeb Bush for its in-house investing arm. And now “The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, a prestigious Wall Street firm, will touch Florida’s pension funds and the state-run insurer because both hold its securities. The State Board of Administration holds $322 million in Lehman stock and bonds. The SBA manages the state’s employee fund and more than two dozen other funds, including assets for the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund and the Florida Prepaid College Plan.” Go Noles!
If I ever wanted an “oh snap” t-shirt, it would be the one Feministing made that says “A woman candidate is not the same thing as a woman’s candidate.” Going to Portland, Oregon on Wednesday for Jamie and Nicole’s wedding of the century. And hiking! Then home to see the Ashbery collages at Tibor de Nagy and finish my new story, which is called Wanda.