May 6, 2008

Self-Reliance

in The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Paperback, Modern Library edition, 2000

4 cards

This is the first time I have read anything by Ralph Waldo Emerson. While this is just one essay of many it might be a while before I finish the whole book so I thought I would post my cards about this essay since it had a great effect on me. An Emerson reading group is trying to form where I live so I figured I would give it a try. I haven't yet made it to a meeting but I feel like I've benefited already just by reading this essay. Emerson makes many excellent points about the need to think one's own thoughts and to write. While one could take his notion of Self-Reliance too far these days, the points he raises are particularly interesting in light of the global world in which we live.

Excerpts:

132- "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."

133- "...envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide"

"none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he had tried."

-"Trust thyself."

134- "These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."

-conformity

-"Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs."

135- "Your goodness must have some edge to it- else it is none."

136- to live

-"My life is for itself and not for a spectacle."

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."

-"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

-"But do your work, and I shall know you."

138- "...with consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."

-"To be great is to be misunderstood."

139- "See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency."

-"Greatness appeals to the future."

140- "a true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the centre of things. Where he is, there is nature."

-"all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."

141- intuition

142- worshipping the past- "The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul."

143- "If we live truly, we shall see truly."

-"Fear and hope are alike beneath it."

145- "We must go alone."

146- to live in truth

147 "...he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances."

149- (travelling)- "the wise man stays at home"

150- "Insist on yourself; never imitate."

"Every great man is unique."

"Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."

153- "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

April 22 - May 13, 2008

Autobiography of Red

Anne Carson

1999, hardcover

16 cards

Autobiography of Red was recommended to me by someone who has pointed me in the direction of brilliantly fabulous books. Anne Carson is an amazing writer. She chooses words and combines them in ways that delight and surprise, and also more. Her fascination with and command of language proves what can be done with language. Other writers in comparison often only arrange letters.

Some excerpts/points of interest:

3- Gertrude Stein quote

-words bouncing

4 "Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else."

-"These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the worlds to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being."

22- Emily Dickinson, "Can human nature not survive without a listener?"

-"The only secret people keep is Immortality."

23- (stones) "To stop and imagine the life of each one!"

26- "A space for its meaning remained there but blank. The letters themselves could be found hung on branches of furniture in the area."

28- "Facts are bigger in the dark"

30-rhinestoning

36- He would remember when he was past forty the dusty almost medieval smell of the screen itself as it pressed its grid onto his face."

39- "They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics."

42- map

43-"'How does distance look?' is a simple direct question, It extends from a spaceless within to the edge

of what can be loved. It depends on light."

46- "Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-photograph

48- "He could feel the house of sleepers around him like loaves on shelves."

49- toast and death

51- "Red Patience"

55- painting

56- "Nothing to say. Nothing."

58- "Why are you along in this huge blank garden like a piece of electricity?"

59- Barnum circus

61- Krakatoa

65- "...photography is a way of playing with perceptual relationships."

-stars, memories

66- "...nobody knows how to look at a photograph nowadays."

-Yeats

70- "Huge wads of silence stuffed the air."

72- yellowing index card

73- donuts

-Muhammad Ali, poems

75- slide projector

80- 15 names for clouds

-"What is time made of?"

-accordion

82- Heidegger, postcards

90- "It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion."

92- "White is black. Black is white. Perhaps I will get some new information about Red."

93- time, photographs

94- olives

-"Children make you see distances."

97- slippery foods

98- "Empty street below gave back nothing of itself. Cars nested along the curb on their shadows. Buildings leaned back out of the street."

-"sleeping pavement"

-moods

103- nothing

105- Philosophic problems, red

106- Walt Whitman

109- wings

120- water tank

125- "trying to think how to photograph Lima"

131- "Human Valentines"

139- "I am a beast"

-gamboling

141- time

145- Photographs #1748

-"The Only Secret People Keep"

148- blinking, blindness

May 8 - 10, 2008

If You're Feeling Sinister

Scott Plagenhoef

From the fabulous 33 1/3 series http://33third.blogspot.com/

Paperback, 2007

8 cards

I have always been fond of Belle & Sebastian. The characters in the songs tapped into bits about how I felt in high school, the people they sung about were the people I wanted to be friends with, but in a town with one stoplight, they weren't too many like them around. I didn't hear Belle & Sebastian in high school though, if I had, they would have been much like R.E.M. for me. I remember Automatic for the People allowed me to realize there are interesting people out there, they think some of the same things you do, that it can get really interesting out there in the world, and there's lots to discover. I first borrowed B&S cds while working at an ad agency. I enjoyed them but the quest to know more about them didn't grip me. Their new cds came out and I enjoyed them. Then a few years ago something caused me to go back and listen more closely to certain songs, particularly Sinister's "Get Me Away from Here I'm Dying." I saw them a few years ago live in Detroit. I love Belle & Sebastian now, but I still didn't know as much as I should. Thanks to Scott Plagenhoef though now some of that's been filled in. One part of Plagenhoef's book that I don't quite understand however is his stand against the internet and quick, dismissive chatter about bands on it. He waxes on this topic here and there throughout the book yet the back cover says he works for Pitchfork. While I read Pitchfork and it is great for tour news, it is one of the biggest contributors to being quickly dismissive of amazing albums or bands. What I know about Pitchfork and what Plagenhoef writes about seem to be at odds. This is still a good book and I really enjoyed reading it. He's totally right about how we currently listen to music, and the need to really listen, and not just allowing it to become merely background noise. Listening with people is also a lovely activity much like conversing about music.

Selected notes/passages

1- "In November 1996, when Belle & Sebastian released their second album, If You're Feeling Sinister, being a fan of the band took a great deal of patience and work."

3- Madame Cecile Aubrey's Belle & Sebastian

4- "Murdoch had taken to songwriting in order to engage with a world outside of home..."

6- "B & S's cover stars weren't celebrities or cult heroes, they were friends and acquaintances no more glamorous than the people expected to be buying the records."

7- interviews- "...repetitive and dull for the subjects themselves"

8- Murdoch, "The band is really not about me. The interesting things happen when it goes beyond me."

9- playing at offbeat locales- libraries and churches- "...a hearkening back to the time when underground or indie music was something discovered and investigated by the curious rather than something branded in the music press."

10- Murdoch, "I always think that the best songs are the ones I'll write tomorrow..."

11- "They hold hands but 'only as a display of public solidarity.'"

12- imagining and discussion of Tigermilk

15- strong sense of place in B & S songs

17- "Characters hope to belong, to find kindred spirits, but crucially they refused to compromise themselves in the process, as so many of us must throughout adulthood."

-"life is never dull in your dreams"

20- "do something pretty while you can"

31- (The internet's Sinister list) "The entire experience felt like a night at the pub with friends, dissecting and examining culture, art and each other's lives."

-John Phillip Sousa and the phonograph- "Something is irretrievably lost when we are no longer in the presence of bodies making music."

-"Their fans couldn't investigate the group itself, so they made inroads into each other's lives instead."

32-33- (Sinister list) "a place where people engaged in conversations about each other's thoughts and ideas about music rather than merely their record collections or the contents of theirs external hard drives."

41- rockism

43- Murdoch, "the trumpet should be as important as the guitar, the cellos should be as important as the piano"

47- Malcolm McLaren, "In the end [punk] is about making ugliness beautiful, it's about destroying in order to create something that liberates you from orthodoxy."

47-48-"The modernists and their followers challenged the belief that creative aesthetics wasn't mean to simply reproduce or reflect life and pursue beauty, but to alter and shape society through intellectual pursuits and progressive approaches to technology, science and the arts."

48- Duchamp

-beauty and youth culture- being suspicious

55- "...audience and artist were almost indistinguishable from one another, in look, and, some would sneer, talent."

63- Isobel Campbell- The Bell Jar and Dorothy Parker

71- Murdoch's exploration of emotions through childhood- "is less about nostalgia or escapism as it is exploring core human emotions without the distractions, compromises and obligations of adulthood."

75- "poet laureates for the outcast liberal arts set"

-dedication of "We Rule the School" to a young, smalltown girl on the BBC- "because life isn't easy for a 16 year old in the middle of nowhere."

-discussion of New Pop vs. The Smiths

79- "Murdoch not only wrote his own myths, he also wrote his own apologies as well."

84- laddism vs. wallflower feminism

85- Nick Hornby

- (talking about Murdoch) "In his songs, women take the chances, have sexual fantasies, and are generally the ones either put at risk or rewarded for living active rather than passive lives."

86- freedom to stumble and fall

87- (Murdoch on cd) "...he's merely a vessel for communicating about life in general rather than his life in particular..."

-"sex, religion, friendship, education, family- rarely are any of them finite or defining characteristics. Whatever we think of any of the above shifts depending on the year or day, and in Murdoch's songs you can feel his characters struggle to come to terms with each as well."

88- Jenny Toomey's writing about their ability to "describe a character in a way that represents their complexity."

-Murdoch "No regular rock venue is set up to deal with the subtlety of singing... But the intimacy of someone's bedroom, when they've just got the record home, there is no scope for any bullshit. To absolutely absorb somebody as they listen tot he LP through on their mono Dansette is what I really want."

91- iPod era "more time hearing music...but less time listening to it...typically something we do in isolation"

92- "One's first records are often spoken of as mystical or magical things- you'd study the sleeve, maybe imagine your own parents being young and listening to the music you discover in your home."

97- "Frankly, almost any line on 'Get Me Away'- perhaps the most immediately loveable track on Sinister- is worth quoting."

104- "Online criticism now seems less about communicating ideas than about simply sharing music."

105 "shrinking column inches and fencesitting major media outlets...considers music criticism to be nothing more than a utilitarian tipsheet, to the point that many are suspicious of anyone wanting to communicate ideas about art rather than simply bit-sized opinions. And although there may now be more chatter about music than ever before, there seems to be far less conversation."

April 27 - May 8, 2008

Andy Warhol

Blow Job

Peter Gidal

Afterall Books, 2008

Part of their brilliant One Work series http://www.afterall.org/books_onework.html

11 cards

I think we're really getting into an interesting period of Warhol scholarship and this book is just one step in that direction. Warhol left a lot behind. There is a lot to deal with but in what has been dealt with, much has been overlooked. This type of focused approach to a single work is the best type of contribution to writing on Warhol since differences and minute details are integral to Warhol's practice. He left many clues but many remain to be found or deciphered to the extent of their full complexity. Gidal sets out a careful and thoughtful analysis of Blow Job while offering exciting jumps to connections between the film and Velazquez's Luncheon or Three Men at a Table as well as Duchamp's Large Glass. I love the MCA bookstore in Chicago and I was particularly excited to see that they had this new release.

Select notes/passages of interest:

1- Warhol's classic figment quote

-exploration of duration

-projected speed, flares, edge numbers, time for reel breaks

4- "...his courage in being prepared to act without denying his sexuality was no mean thing, then or now."

5- four agents in the space

7- Gertrude Stein

8- "no less real for not being seen"

-"The real world is appropriated by the film..."

11- "unendurable durations"

12- the paradox

14- Proust

15- "...not about time regained but time lost. 'In search of...' means not that you find it but that you don't."

18- "existing only in its absence"

19- Velazquez

22- "making nothing materially present"

24- mirror

26- Warhol's time

-"The fear of death doesn't need more than a moment."

-shadow

28- shadows "understanding the state of suspended or arrested recognition"

"Warhol's works are emphatically not iconic"

31- real time during the viewing

32- Proust again

-"extreme light can create an absence of image"

36- "We are unable to lose ourselves in the series of acts represented....'realism' of another kind."

37- machine and body

-"In that re-viewing, the repetition becomes a memory."

38- palimpsest

-"the taking up of time, its being filled, is what obliterates it"

40

-"Thus the subject of the film is never just what you 'see.'"

-silkscreens and squeegee marks

41- Warhol titles

45- boredom

46 (Warhol film) "you are left bereft"

59 Henri Bergson (via Bertrand Russell)

60- the subject and where it exists

61- adequateness and language

61-63-discussion of leaders

63- The Chelsea Girls- silent screen, indexical

64- Empire- "the skyscraper can be both itself and an image of a stable structure and fragile evanescence."

-printing of Sleep

-discussion of time and death towards the bottom of the page

65- "'You don't have sex with a name.'"

66- "So what."

69- time held- Suicide silkscreen

71- "In Warhol's films, meaning is, in the end, always determined by production not consumption. And in the beginning too."

73- Duchamp's Large Glass

73-74- concept of Marcel Duchamp

75- stillness

76- uttering a word- "no sooner spoken than unspoken"

78- moments only

April 15 - 23, 2008

You Are Here
Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
Katherine Harmon
Softcover, 2004
10 cards

I became quite interested in maps and the newest issue of my collage zine, la colle, took maps on as a theme. This book was lent to me by Amanda in my quest to learn more about maps. It offers a wonderful collection of essays by thoughtful writers (Denis Wood and Stephen S. Hall) while also including a range of images of maps by cartographers, artists and others. Maps in literature, particularly children's literature, loom large throughout the book, my favorite is the end quote from Roald Dahl's The BFG.

Lewis Carroll quote
-8-9 Bedolina petroglyph at Valcamonica, 2500 BCE, one of the oldest known maps
-10- mapping making us human
-11 gambol
-own dialect
-"These are maps of the imagination, as all maps are, only more so.
-"three-years-olds are born cartographers
-15 I Mercator by Stephen S. Hall
"We all travel with many maps, neatly folded and tucked away in the glove compartment of memory- some of them communal and some of them universal..."
-private maps
-personal atlas
-16 sentimental documents
-Robert E. Lee
-reader and the map
-"What the map fails to supply, the human mind (or human yearning) sometimes has the power to conjure."
-"the mood of the map-reader colors the map itself. The ability to conjure, the willingness to fill in the blanks, the urgency with which one needs to know- all contribute to what the map becomes in the hands of the inspired imaginer: an instrument of destiny."
-"It is hard to look at a map without sensing, in our bones, private hopes and secret fears about change."
-17 "Out of one territory, one map, can bloom a thousand geographies."
-change- ways of seeing the world
-"fate maps"
-18 wooden puzzle of the United States
-19 "...We need some secure oasis or order, even if only a memory (or a fiction), as a home port for our various explorations, our attempts to make sense of the unknown."
-"'home' which appears on page one of every private atlas"
-19 exploration
-look at it long enough
-"all the things we still do not know"
-24 Paula Scher's map
-38 Chukchi drawing, Siberia, 19th century
"map lays out paths to dreamed destinations...uses notations that are collectively understood to guide others in their dreams and prevent them from becoming lost."
-42-43 Adolf Wolfli
-46 Howard Finster
-53 Geographical Guide to a Woman's Heart, 1960 (Sanctuary of Silence, Just Friends Lane, River of True Communication)
-54-55 Ernest Dudley Chase, A Pictorial Map of Loveland, 1943
-74 Oldenburg
-104 The Maps of Boylan Heights by Denis Wood
-"We mapped everything we could figure out how to map."
-108-109 The American Road
-110
-111 Michigan
-114-115 stone maps
-120-121 William Wegman's Vacationland, 2003 (utterly exquisite and fabulous)
-130 Memory Map by Katie Davis
"Some days, what's missing is more vivid than what is."
-132 What's Up? South! http://www.odt.org/ alternative views of the world
-"It takes many points of view to see the truth."
-133
-135 (who knew the Futurists had a cookbook?)
-136 Ed Ruscha
-142 Ellsworth Kelly
-147 Common Ground Apple Map
-149 R. L. Stevenson, Treasure Island
"I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe."
-173 Simon Patterson, The Great Bear
-176-177 Mark Bennett- maps settings of sit-coms
-192 R. Dahl, The BFG: "That's why they always put two blank pages at the back of the atlas. They're for new countries. You're meant to fill them in."

April 17-19, 2008

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

Hardcover 2005

31 cards

It's hard to read a book while crying, but it is truly amazing to read a book that moves me to tears. When this book was lent to me the picture from 9/11 was flipped to. I admit this was a picture I did not want to see at the time, I didn't watch the news, I didn't need the images at the time. While I loved Foer's other book Everything is Illuminated it took a month or so for me to pick this book up, but once I did, I couldn't put it down. Using the picture as a sort of Readymade and wrestling with Duchamp's both and rather than either/or (the door that is both open and closed), Foer, from a child's perspective (a child anyone would live a richer life to know) offers amazing story layered upon story, driven by letters and emotions, while also revealing revelations about life not unlike Jenny Holzer's Truisms. Foer includes amazing statements about love throughout while also cracking the reader up. I thought I was one of the few who see the need for a detachable pocket and I was delighted to see that Foer through Oskar also see the need. This is likely the best use of a tambourine in a story. Ever. "Heavy boots" but boots worth putting on and wearing.

I don't even know where to begin with my stack of cards from this book. Each page offers a present. A rich experience with each page turned.

-2 birdseed shirt

-tambourining

-4 "It's that I believe that things are extremely complicated."

-7 children and parents

-8 map of Central Park

-"Was nothing a clue?"

-9 "But if you don't tell me anything, how can I be right?" "...Another way of looking at it would be, how could you ever be wrong?"

-10 not stop looking

-"The more I found the less I understood."

-11 letters

-12 laminator

-13 "Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are."

-17 yes, no

-36 coffin and closet

-40 319 post offices, 207,352 post office boxes, 41,163 million locks

-42 "someone walking on a tightrope between the Twin Towers" (Phillipe Petit, about whom I just saw the film, Man On Wire)

-Stuff That Happened to Me scrapbook

-45, 47, 48, 49

-46 "...most people write the name of the color of the pen they're writing with."

-"Would you mind not shaking the tambourine in the store?"

-53

-60-61

-59, 62, 63

-69 "It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone."

-71 portable pocket

-Mencils

-72 and 73- ambulances

-74 "We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families, and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe."

-"In the end, everyone loses everyone." (This reminds me of Jason Collett's song We All Lose One Another)

-76 (letter) "Where had it been for those 15 years?"

-"I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."

-ruby bracelet

-"I had a letter from everyone I knew."

-81 "Their length could not be measured in years, just as an ocean could not explain the distance we had traveled, just as the dead can never be counted."

-"We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it."

-82 "I was more along than if I had been alone."

-84 "Together and separately."

-87 meeting people with last name Black

-88 "I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me."

-90 Edna Saint Vincent Millay

-95

-96 elephants, remembering

-99 "So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are."

-card

-100 scarf and knitting

-101 "Don't go away."

-102 love and collection

-106 inventions: wedding rings and bracelet

-108 "songs are as sad as the listener"

-109 "...at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news."

-111 Something. Nothing.

-126 "Trying to be"

-130 "My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met."

-133 "I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life."

-145 gambols

-147 Coney Island, Cyclone

-149 leather

-154 "I was keeping a list in my head of things I could do to be more like him."

-"There are more places you haven't heard of than you've heard of."

-LP...Polaroid...drive-in...Frank Lloyd Wright

-156 "Is a love song a love song?" "Yes!"

"Is love love?" "No!"
-biographical index

-160- 230 years of peace

-162 library sinking

-163 being careful with people

-164 artists, arms, feeding each other, believing in the story

-166 and 167

-169 "His memory is here"...

-cells

-170-171 Feelings Book entries

-172-173

-175 taking pictures

-178 "Everything will be..."

-179 shyness, shame

-colder

-books, grandfather clock, time

-180 book crying

-189

-"Why are you so weird?"

-190 Buckminster Fuller

-191

-193 postage stamp, creme brulee

-194 "He said poverty made him nervous, not people."

-195 watching the world

-202 Cucumber, Formica

-203 juicebox

-207 Hey Jude

-208-216

-208 "You write to someone you can't be with."

-214 typewriter

-215 "Life is scarier than death."

-216 letter- "And here I am instead of there. ..."

-217 the Sixth Borough

-220 "I love you" and response

-222 "Maybe we're lost..."

-Antarctica

-230 staples and tape

-226-229

-230-232

-232 "That beautiful person is mine! Mine!"

-233 empty envelopes

-239 "In Chinese ny mean 'you' Though was 'I love you.'"

-245 Empire State Building- what it's really like

-247 "I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for."

-Ruth

-249 "We'll care incredibly much."

-250- kissing, electric sparks

-251 "If I had an answer, it wouldn't really be love would it?"

-252 spotlight

-253

-255

-256 "Maybe he didn't say he loved me because he loved me."

-257 "Why Yes and No?"

-260-261

-269

-275

-278 "The room was filled with the conversation we weren't having."

-map of where he went

-280 "We didn't talk about unimportant things."

-285- Mr. Black's

-286 Oskar Schell: Son

-"...I wouldn't have let him go."

-believing

-287-288

-304-305

-"I wish I were a poet."

-307- nothing to write on

-309

-310 "It's better to lost than never to have had."

-312 "What if we stay?"

-314 "It's always necessary."

-316 book invented

-318

-319 names, keep

-321 dictionary definition

-324 extremely complicated

-325 reversed the order

March 19-26, 2008

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Karen Russell
Hardcover
11 cards

Thank you to Claire for pointing me towards this book, even though the cover of the version I read differed from the one she read even though I forgot to take a picture of the book I read. Beautiful writing with words known and created, beautiful ideas and heartbreaking ones too, close attention paid to the oridinary in an extraordinaryly revealing way.

Brief excerpts and notes of interest:
-3 "...a tin roof that hums with the memory of rain..."
-6 Swamplandia!
-names, palindromes
-10 "Alligators talk to one another, and to the moon..."
-12 "I'm lonely and I want to have a secret with somebody."
-16 library books
-28 bird watching
-35- G-L-O-W-W-O-R-M G-R-O-T-T-O
-"Olivia was a cartographer of imaginary places."
-36- "But I left you a map!"
-40 shooting stars, lemmings
-41- x- map- places where someone is not
-46 "To enter the grotto, you have to slide on your back, like a letter through a mail slot."
-50- "Being unconscious with somebody, that's a big deal."
-53- "sleep is the heat that melts time..."
-"We just want to provide you with a safe place to lie awake together. And maybe even," she beams at the crowd, "to dream."
-55 "My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly."
-"our worshipful respect for the hobo."
-"But we are sleep twins...He is the first and only person I have ever met who is also a prophet of the past."
-56- saving
-57 dirigible
-58 Our Storied Past!
-"The table of contents was like an index to my dreams..."
-70- forgetting
-74 tin foil
-76- "In the moonlight, he looks like he's made of liquid silver."
-78 "Do not interfere with the moon!"
-84- "ifs" to "whens"
-85- "1 Mr. Goodbar=187 sick children's wishes"
-97- "...thinks the ocean's actually erasing his foot."
-99- "They seem so old and so young all at once."
-106 "I was startled by this, the speed with which one apocryphal watercolor was transforming our future."
-'...that fiery alchemy, whereby "raw" becomes "food."'
-108- "Our necessities...are now burdensome luxuries."
-116- Acres of lightning!
-120 "Everyone wants to go home, and no one can agree on where that is anymore."
-142 wondercould
-145 "It looked like she caught a bad dream from somebody."
-156 The City of Shells
-157 skitterclatter
-159 pickle sticks
-163 "...it felt like being parenthesized."
-170 (Houdini) "She knows that he was all the time just searching for a box that could hold him."
-176 "The world swells into an apocalyptic howl, as if the world can't keep its secrets any longer."
-180- measuring time
-246 dill pickles