From 5 steps to taming materialism: “So much of what we hold on to is what we wish we were using — objects that commemorate a life we aspire to but do not have. The six books we bought a year ago and haven’t read, for example. We don’t want to admit that we’re not [...]
Last Friday, I introduced a new feature here on Fluid Imagination called Gobbledygook. The Gobbledygook posts are a catch-all for the things I’ve learned over the past week. So, why don’t we get started?
Here’s what I learned this week…
…from moving pictures:
That the tragedy of Malcolm X is not that he was killed, but that he [...]
I’m down in the Boston-area for the next 10 days or so, and I gotta tell ya, I can’t wait to get back to Vermont. I mean, I love my family and friends and it’s great to see them and all, but I just don’t like the whole “people everywhere” kind of thing that the [...]
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics) by Annie Dillard
Kyle has read 21 books in the last 12 months.
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