Archive for January 1st, 2003

New Year’s Resolutions for You

I have no New Year’s Resolutions for myself, because I am perfect just the way I am. But I have a few for my blogroll. The 2 Blowhards should resolve to lose the epistolary format, as the English novel managed to do about 200 years ago. Colby Cosh should resolve to write less well, and […]

Aaron Haspel | Posted January 1, 2003 @ 12:39 PM | General
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  • When you see someone described as embittered, he is quite likely telling the truth.

  • The commercial and avant-garde hacks enslave themselves equally to their audience -- one to confirm its expectations, one to frustrate them.

  • #OffendEveryoneIn4Words I'm better than you.

  • Next to some of the contemporary forms of self-mutilation the tonsure begins to look rather fetching.

  • The Soviet propaganda department in Malcolm Muggeridge's 1934 roman à clef, Winter in Moscow, is called Vox.

  • Destroying irreplaceable works of art elicits more outrage than killing people; and perhaps it should.

  • Travel appears a great luxury if you have grown accustomed to the greater one of staying in one place.

  • Small advances come from fixing stuff that's broke, great ones from breaking stuff that's fixed.

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