October 2011
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VKN: How are you keeping warm at my mother's house?
MFJ: I am keeping warm by keeping sheep in two of the three bedrooms. At night, when the temperature falls, I remove some of the sheep from their rooms and take them into bed with me. I keep spare sheep because some sheep have escaped and some have died; I want to be sure to always have one or two on hand. I have once been in bed with a sheep that has died, and it is just as chilly as having no sheep at all.
“As smoking give us something to do with our hands when we aren’t using...”
– Dwight Macdonald
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“You remember that time when I suggested that we go to the local ice cream place down the street to buy a few scoops of vanilla and then go to the grocery store across the street to buy whisky and then combine the two in ice cream whisky drinks? We still haven’t done that.”
“A single person in nature is not an individual but an animal.”
– Dwight Macdonald, Masscult and Midcult
My time in Singapore (November 2009-June 2010) was a lot like an adult version of the teenage years, I just realized. I’m writing this thought down here so that I can remember it in the future.
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Is there such a thing as social momentum in this world? Almost a year ago a good friend of mine from Singapore asked me if I wanted to be a part of his new literary journal that was going to focus on international literature and translation. (Okay, he didn’t ask me so much as tell me that I was, out of the blue, the Special Feature editor.) It’s called Asymptote and the fourth issue of...