The switch flips. My sadness turns a corner and runs smack into self-reliance. No matter the mental obstacles, an athlete is still in control of her body, and that has to be enough.
“London Calling — Disappointment breeds new energy”, Kathryn Bertine (via @keavy)
This.
…action scenes are often like sex scenes — they are just hanging there, an exclamation point on the end of a sentence that we’ve already read.
Maggie Stiefvater writing five things about the book The Lock Artist.
…I’d much rather be someone who tries and fails then someone who makes fun of people because they look funny before they’re good at the thing they are practicing.
Hellbox. Damage. Smelt. Recast.: On Writing (50,000 words in 30 days, this year)
Word.
Notice how you know where you are in the book by the distribution of weight in each hand, and the thickness of the page stacks between your fingers.
Bret Victor, A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
In the however-many articles I’ve read about reading, books, ebooks, and reading devices, I don’t think this point has ever been made, not this well, anyway. Love it.
…the authentic creak of the Victorian stage boards and the gaslit melodrama.
Robin Buss, introduction to The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
…and like people who read as the day fails, they didn’t see that they’d lost the light. At close range, they could see everything they needed.
Five Skies, Ron Carlson (p. 164)
Key pointed his burned bread at where the old yellow road grader reclined in the bright sage like the rusted skeleton of a creature as primitive and forgotten as the ioslated plateau.
Five Skies, Ron Carlson (p. 54)
Maybe only a single color is named in that sentence (two if you’re fussy about sage) but the whole image is so lush and it wants to feel like a run-on but it isn’t but damn if it doesn’t match the Idaho landscape setting. So good.
The [Pitilessly Resentful Sophomore] would turn her blinding light on the canon and await the shivering confessions of Hawthorne and Hemingway, because every dick move ever perpetrated by a man in the Norton oppressed her personally.
-Sars, “Beautiful Fools”
Dying. laughing. Because: oh college.
Also good, “…this sort of dispositional sourness posing as feminism”. !
There are moments that are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.
p 358, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John Le Carré
Sun outside my window, sweets, and a book! I felt thoroughly spoiled and not about to question my good fortune…
p.21 Jane Slayre (…I know)
Sounds like a pretty good day to me. (:
That was another thing about [Smiley] that Guillam didn’t like just then: he spoke as if you followed his reasoning, as if you were inside his mind all the time.
p. 174 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John Le Carré
Heh, word Peter; word.
The unknown is great, except when it operatically is not…
-Sars, Big Country, Little Car Tour II, Day 16: San Francisco, CA to Elko, NV
While the above is excellent, do yourself a favor and read Day 17: Elko, NV to Rock Springs, WY. Because: damn. So GOOD.
The dial was so jaded it knew the way.
p. 91, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John Le Carré
It would be like a grown-up “Sesame Street,” except for the deadly road races, and the fact that the puppets have tattoos, guns, muscles, bald heads, and a ton of moving violations.
Fast Foward: Why a movie about car thieves is the most progressive force in American cinema, Wesley Morris (boston.com)
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