Peter McArthur
I'm a software developer in New York. I work at vimeo. I like to read books and magazines
Email: ptrmcrthr+t@gmail.com
Email: ptrmcrthr+t@gmail.com
Jun 09
Jun 08
Jun 07
the things that other people see that i feel are alive almost always change sometime in the doing them
“ in a 1997 letter to David Foster Wallace, he wrote that his prose is characterized by “a sensitivity to the actual appearance of words on a page, to letter-shapes and letter-combinations.” (DeLillo saved a copy of the letter.) He goes on, “At some point (in my writing life) I realized that precision can be a kind of poetry, and the more precise you try to be, or I try to be, the more simply and correctly responsive to what the world looks like—then the better my chances of creating a deeper and more beautiful language.” (In his response, Wallace wrote, “I found your comments on the physical architecture of clauses and words and letters real interesting and yet identified with them not one whit. I think I’m maybe 100% aural. My eyesight’s really bad anyway.”)
Jun 05
“ The Second Inaugural Address was widely considered utopian. Today’s Prague speech is, at best, delusional. “Freedom can be resisted, and freedom can be delayed, but freedom cannot be denied,” Bush said to applause.
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Bush’s deluded speech to the world’s oppressed. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine
It seems like most of the things Bush says in these addresses are just a few syllables away from completely awesome. This line in particular is so great.
“Freedom can be resisted, and freedom can be delayed, but freedom cannot be denied”
It reminds me of my friend Nathan’s movie about the elk burger in which he says “ELK FOR MY ACNE, ELK FOR MY PASSION, ELK FOR THE BLAZERS, MY FAVORITE BASKETBALL TEAM…ELK FOR BEAUTY, ELK FOR MY STOMACH, ELK FOR MY BRAIN, ELK FOR MY FREEDOM”
Jun 01
- nathan: when I log in on monday will I just automatically go into beta version?
- me: no, it's a different site
- nathan: I see
- nathan: I get it, you guys even changed the name!
- nathan: what's it' called now?
- me: VIMERON