This blog redux

After having a blogspot blog for years, I tried starting anew with a blog at wordpress.com. And it sucked. It looked pretty, but it sucked. CSS can't be edited without paying so-and-so dollars a month, tags didn't really work: not good times. So, after a hiatus, I'm migrating my old blogspot content to this new blog. I've crossed out a lot of my terrible writing from over the years, but by and large everything is back.

I will probably transfer the stuff from my wordpress blog over when I get the time.

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"Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. This is an art very difficult to impart. Whenever a textbook is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. If it were easy, the book ought to be burned; for it cannot be educational."

—Alfred North Whitehead, "The Aims of Education"

House of Leaves of Grass

According to a certain publisher's press release, author Walt Z. Danmanewski has a new work that is set to hit the shelves next week.

Here's an exclusive preview of one of its pages, courtesy of the publisher (click to view it at a higher resolution):





4/23 update:

Suggested reading:

1. House of Pancakes

On a darkling plain

On a darkling plain,
among bruised metal and stanzas—
     sleepy interpretations awaken
     with disheveled hair
     and wave their flailing arms—crying:
            "Materialism!"
            "Tragic Hero!"
            "Pirates of the Caribbean!"
in an air-conditioned room
     bereft of beer bottle caps
     and the drone of televisions.

For no apparent reason...

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