Yearly Archives: 2008

Viva la Vida

 Did you read this article when it came out? I think you probably did. I read it here in Buenos Aires, on a friend’s computer I borrowed while she went to tango class. It’s what I was trying to say about Death Cab and Foer only regarding Coldplay, which as far as examples go is a good example.
They’ve become [...]

June 27, 2008 – 5:11 am
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What I meant

Was it Dad?
Maybe.
Whoever it was, it was somebody.
I ripped the pages out of the book.
— Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, two pages before the Flipbook of Redemption.
Write me the history of magic realism and it will be good, but it will not be fantastic. The spread from German coinage to its Latin American versions did [...]

May 20, 2008 – 2:49 pm
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The Library of Manifestos

Anarchist to Zapatista.
Early in the morning, this is how I find them, as I have found you sleeping on the floor, a night spent reversing my work. We argue mainly about systems: alphabetically, you say, people can come here to find what they are looking for. But I tell you no one comes here with [...]

May 18, 2008 – 1:30 pm
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