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Feb 27th

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Feb 27th

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Murakami

I’m reading 1Q84 (275 pages in), and after reading several of his books and short stories, themes and motifs keep reappearing. I’ve decided to make a list of them as I encounter them. Cutty Sark Classical music Jazz Swimming as recreation Cats Western culture Alternative realities Manchuria/Siberia World War II Adultery Home cooking 1960/1970s radicals in Japanese...

Feb 27th

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Feb 23rd

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Feb 19th

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Lent

Usually, like all “good” Catholics, Lent is a time of fast for me. I avoid meat on Fridays and give up something until Easter. In the past, I’ve given up listening to my iPod to appreciate the sound of the world around me. Other times, it was not cursing. It’s easy to trip up on these but I usually appreciate things better afterwards. This year, I’m going to...

Feb 17th

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Feb 15th

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Only in New York

“Only in New York” is a common refrain I’ve been hearing here. My guess is it’s to express disbelief at the absurdities of everyday New York. I’ve accumulated a few moments that strangers have declared to me: - A man steps on (human) feces on the subway and people think its just dropped food. - A man plays the saxophone on the subway, says he’s from Mars and...

Feb 12th

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Feb 12th

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Jan 30th

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Jan 29th

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Pangrams →

jtotheizzoe: Pangrams are sentences that use every letter of the alphabet at least once. We’ve all heard “A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” but how about “Jelly-like above the high wire, six quaking pachyderms kept the climax of the extravaganza in a dazzling state of flux”? Here’s a whole mess more. About sixty codfish eggs will make a quarter pound of very fizzy jelly. Now is the...

Jan 28th

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Jan 27th

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Jan 25th

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Karma

I grew up with an objective sense of right and wrong, that the laws that govern morality are external of myself and that divine powers would punish me for sins. In that sense, I also believed that if I were to do something wrong, I would be punished by God. In a way, it’s like a twisted view of karma from a Buddhist perspective: that actions, good or bad, will affect you in this life or the...

Jan 25th

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Prodigal vs. Prodigy

In prepping for the GRE, one word that stuck out for me was “prodigal.” For the longest time, I always thought it was synonymous with “prodigy,” as in a child gifted with extraordinary talent in music, art, math, sports, etc. However, the two have actually no connection. “Prodigal” means “wasteful.” It’s associated strongly with the New...

Jan 24th

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