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“One of the qualities of DeLillo’s prose I’ve admired since I began reading him more than a dozen years ago is its analytic rigor, the way he can use a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph to bore into the texture and meaning of contemporary life. And one of the grammatical constructions he uses repeatedly as the vehicle for his insights is apposition, which is when two nouns or noun phrases, usually adjacent to each other in a sentence, have the same referent and stand in the same syntactical relation to the rest of the sentence, as in, “George W. Bush, the worst president in U.S. history, is on vacation.” Apposition allows a writer two or more passes in a row at coming up with a verbal equivalent for a given phenomenon, wherein each pass amplifies the others. The result can be a kind of verbal Cubism, a grammatical form of hopefulness in which each periphrastic utterance brings you closer to the truth of the subject under discussion.”
— from DeLillo and Things that Become Other Things by Matthew Sharpe
- og: o no!
- og: milkshake!
- og: banana split!
- og: hamburger!
- og: pickled onions
- og: smoked trout
- og: salad with chevre
- og: pumpkin pie
- og: fuck you in the eye
“His death was announced today by a spokesman for Blue Note records”
The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
Jeff reminded me about this album today. Did it have something with Morgan being in town?
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- og: beer bong coffee?
- og: i fuck
- pm: did you mean "u fuck" ?
- pm: or "o fuck"
- pm: what is the meaning of that
- og: I have NO idea why I typed i fuck.
- og: maybe o
- og: you should try to get everyone there to get some Khat or raw coca to chew, make a video of them doing that
- [20 minutes pass]
- og: do any of them cry?
