Krule Intentions

Mar 18

“More fetching than a girl with a dragon tattoo has always been a girl with a Penguin Classic.” Dwight Garner (obviously)

Mar 8

“She arrived in a state of bliss because she believed the Messiah was coming,” Lichtenberg says. “I probably thought, she’s just meshuggeneh.” Was a more Jewish phrase ever uttered? (Wired)

Feb 26

“what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an environment; atoms, not bits. My books are not dead weight, they are live weight—matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in one’s own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows. And a book is more than a text: even if every book in my library is on Google Books, my library is not on Google Books.” Leon Wieseltier is packing up lots of books.

Feb 23

“But whereas Christianity and Islam and Buddhism are all constrained by the inherent demand to write around one central character, Judaism’s narrative logic is different. If you want to understand it, just watch The Simpsons.” Yes, this article is in Tablet, and yes, I love it.

Feb 15

“Finally, Jeremy Lin has given me hope as a young Jewish athlete from the suburbs of New Jersey. Although he has recently come out as Taiwanese American by nationality, Christian by religion and a native of Northern California, it is clear he is Jewish by spirituality and, according to my uncle who works near Madison Square Garden, studying at a Rabbinical school in Paramus.” Linsanity

Feb 6

“There are moments when the humanism of “A Separation” feels a bit schematic, as if the characters were pulled from a box of available types rather than painted in the shades of life.” I can’t tell if I love or hate this sentence from A.O. Scott’s review of A Separation.

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esther: you really should star in a wb show

Jan 22

“Imagine, for instance, a group of teenage nutmeg fiends staring into a fire late one night when one says, ‘You know what would be cool? A hat with three corners.’” Yet recreational use [of nutmeg] never seems to have taken off.

Dec 27

“Losing the mixed pleasures of just arrived letters may not mean as much in the end as what we’re missing by not writing them. Writing regularly to several people—a parent, a friend who’s moved to another coast, a daughter or son away at college—requires one to keep separate mental ledgers, storing up the weather or the idle thoughts or the disasters we need to pass on. We’re always getting ready to write. The letters out and back become a correspondence, and mysteriously take on a tone of their own: some rambly and comfortably boring; others cool and funny; some financial; some confessional. They stick in the mind and seem worth the trouble.” Because I will post every love letter to the post office I can find.

Dec 26

“Much more than just a demonstration of what money can buy or an attempt to burnish a rich family’s name, Crystal Bridges is poised to make a genuine cultural contribution, and possibly to become a place of pilgrimage for art lovers from around the world.” The museum that Walmart built.

Krule Intentions

I tumble what I tweet.

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