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(noun) a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse / (noun) a break in the flow of sound in a verse caused by the ending of a word within a foot / (noun) break interruption / (noun) a pause marking a rhythmic point of division in a melody

25

In that caesura so much richness lies

this writing omg

—p.25 Impressions of a Paranoid Optimist (23) by Mary Caponegro
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6 years, 6 months ago

In that caesura so much richness lies

this writing omg

—p.25 Impressions of a Paranoid Optimist (23) by Mary Caponegro
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6 years, 6 months ago

intervened with, through an intermediary

28

the technologies mediating our discourse were outstripping our discourse's ability to define those changes or formulate satisfactorily the terms with which to consider and debate their implications

—p.28 Literature as Lyrical Politics (28) by Peter Dimock
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6 years, 6 months ago

the technologies mediating our discourse were outstripping our discourse's ability to define those changes or formulate satisfactorily the terms with which to consider and debate their implications

—p.28 Literature as Lyrical Politics (28) by Peter Dimock
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6 years, 6 months ago

ambiguous; occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold

31

the truly liminal and dangerously vulnerable interplay of body, matter, self, other, and society which the creation of meaning through speech represents

confused it with "limn" lol

—p.31 Literature as Lyrical Politics (28) by Peter Dimock
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6 years, 6 months ago

the truly liminal and dangerously vulnerable interplay of body, matter, self, other, and society which the creation of meaning through speech represents

confused it with "limn" lol

—p.31 Literature as Lyrical Politics (28) by Peter Dimock
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6 years, 6 months ago

(adjective) of or relating to a prostitute; having the nature of prostitution / (adjective) tawdrily and falsely attractive / (adjective) superficially significant; pretentious

42

a whole new generation who cannot remember alternatives to "marketplace" meretriciousness is coming to fruition, and that, surely, has an effect on how younger people view what Art (and people) are

this is depressing af

—p.42 Bad Times (39) by Janice Galloway
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6 years, 6 months ago

a whole new generation who cannot remember alternatives to "marketplace" meretriciousness is coming to fruition, and that, surely, has an effect on how younger people view what Art (and people) are

this is depressing af

—p.42 Bad Times (39) by Janice Galloway
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6 years, 6 months ago

(noun) a painkilling drug or medicine

45

being a novelist, even one whose name was o the lips of every literary saloniste and cocktail party-goer, no ticket to dignity and no anodyne to status anxiety

on a photo of Martin Amis, Bret Easton Ellis, Will Self and Patrick McGrath

—p.45 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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6 years, 6 months ago

being a novelist, even one whose name was o the lips of every literary saloniste and cocktail party-goer, no ticket to dignity and no anodyne to status anxiety

on a photo of Martin Amis, Bret Easton Ellis, Will Self and Patrick McGrath

—p.45 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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6 years, 6 months ago

(adjective) having very little or no money usually habitually; penniless

46

He ekes out a precarious living as an editor at a vanity press, a man of all work at the impecunious Little Magazine

—p.46 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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6 years, 6 months ago

He ekes out a precarious living as an editor at a vanity press, a man of all work at the impecunious Little Magazine

—p.46 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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6 years, 6 months ago

(adjective) empyreal / (noun) the highest heaven or heavenly sphere in ancient and medieval cosmology usually consisting of fire or light / (noun) the true and ultimate heavenly paradise / (noun) firmament heavens / (noun) an ideal place or state

46

an infinitely and perplexingly ascending trajectory towards an empyrean of extraliterary fame

—p.46 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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6 years, 6 months ago

an infinitely and perplexingly ascending trajectory towards an empyrean of extraliterary fame

—p.46 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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6 years, 6 months ago

(adjective) former, sometime (from Latin)

46

the unaccountable success of his quondam best friend

what a lovely (if superfluous) word

—p.46 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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6 years, 6 months ago

the unaccountable success of his quondam best friend

what a lovely (if superfluous) word

—p.46 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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6 years, 6 months ago

a confused mixture

46

This whole farrago stopped the British literary-industrial complex in its tracks for weeks

the Martin Amis scandal lol

—p.46 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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6 years, 6 months ago

This whole farrago stopped the British literary-industrial complex in its tracks for weeks

the Martin Amis scandal lol

—p.46 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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6 years, 6 months ago

(noun) a state of extreme agitation

50

a time, of course, in a great swivet over conformity, inauthenticity, and sterility

—p.50 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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6 years, 6 months ago

a time, of course, in a great swivet over conformity, inauthenticity, and sterility

—p.50 Slouching towards Grubnet: The Author in the Age of Publicity (44) by Gerald Howard
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6 years, 6 months ago