October 2011
14 posts
pro tips
“I will do my very best to be there.”
“Invite me to the next one, won’t you?”
nota bene
Say what you will about its founder—the Trump Soho boasts one of the finest free restroom facilities in lower Manhattan.
magnificentruin:
Joy Division Atmosphere
To be ruled is to be kept an eye on, inspected, spied on, regulated, indoctrinated, sermonized, listed and checked off, estimated, appraised, censured, ordered about … to be ruled is at every operation, transaction, movement, to be noted, registered, counted, priced, admonished, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected. — Proudhon
Legibility is a condition of manipulation. Any substantial state intervention in society … requires the invention of units that are visible … they must be organized in a manner that permits them to be identified, observed, recorded, counted, aggregated, and monitored. — James Scott
Public servants follow proper etiquette when addressing their masters. When a properly behaving servant is asked, “why are my shirts not ironed and folded Isabel?” she does not say, “Please take this matter up with the ironing lady”. She will instead, apologise, then run down to the ironing lady and ask why the DEVIL the master’s shirts are not ironed and in place. — Akin Fernandez,...
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QUESTION: If all of these man—Haldeman, Chapin and Colson—are clean and innocent of this, why are they not made available for questions? When we ask you questions to ask them specifically, we do not get direct answers.
—All the President’s Men, p. 209
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novels recently read
The Day of the Jackal — Frederick Forsyth Crossbones — Narrudin Farah Spartina — John Casey Visit From the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan Scarface — Armitage Trail The Moviegoer — Walker Percy
… i might be forgetting something …
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