December 2010
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preludes
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The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o’clock.
The burnt-out ends of smokey days
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of...
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Whale Heart Records: Getting Hot in Here →
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Bros & Brahs,
Just a quick happy holiday status check from the Whale hisself. The last quarter of 2010 has been busy as all heck. We launched our new website, announced the new record from Duchess Leo and have two more records on the way in the first half of 2011.
Tomorrow we go into the…
“she was so sad and so calm, at once so gentle and so reserved, that in her...”
– flaubert, madame bovary (as translated by lydia davis).
google zeitgeist 2010 →
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“one day, i awoke & found myself on a subway endlessly.”
– alice notley.
“irony takes nothing away from pathos.”
– flaubert.
“contemplation amidst activity is 100 million times better than contemplation in...”
– hakuin ekaku.
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“time is more fundamental than space
it is, indeed, the most pervasive
of all...”
– edward dorn, gunslinger
“nothing can to nothing fall.”
– donne.
“what an extraordinary change takes place…when for the first time the fact...”
– kierkegaard.