It rained heavily earlier this evening. The Sun’s brilliance, relentless during the ten minute deluge, would have prompted a search for my level 5 sunglasses had they been in my bag. Rushing home from a myriad of tasks I scanned the sky only briefly for the anticipated rainbow. Of the variety of things humankind makes wishes upon, shooting starts, acorns, dice and so forth, rainbows are the only thing taken seriously in my clan. Call us the Clan of the Color Spectrum if you will. This by way of an explanation of the precocious wish I felt the need to make on a rainbow that had yet to materialized. May not have materialized, for all I know. So it’s come to this — my world. A world where, in my haste, I can no longer wait for what might be. A world where I’m forever doomed to wish upon elusive rainbows.
Infinite Jest:
This is for anyone considering an attempt at this gargantuan novel. With more characters on the first two pages than in the last ten books I’ve read, this is novel of a future dystopia (or five future dystopias, it’s hard to tell at p. 120, but I fear the worse) that only a genius who has forgotten to take his Adderall could have written. Reading Infinite Jest has made me realize it may have been a mistake not to have taken up a friend’s invitation to check out the Tibetan Meditation Center situated the mountains not far from here. I was not completely unprepared, having resumed my Yoga classes in May, but be forewarned, reading this book requires the taking or doing of something to sedate thoughts and mollify the spirit. No getting through it otherwise.
The neither here nor there:
There is much we should know, and even more we should be spared. Sanford Calls Mistress His ‘Soul Mate’, and anything written after such a title, is in the later category.
I’m one of those non twittering twitterers. Most of my life occurs offline, and I prefer it that way. I’ve never really felt the need to twitter, but when a bandwagon full of such a diverse variety of virtual humanity called I was more than willing to jump on it for a short test ride. I got off qucikly the first time but jumped on once more when the wagon got larger. It’s still too difficult to manage to fit into my real life, but this twitter for busy people might be just the thing to help with that problem.
Check out the new theme and post your complaints. You can open the menu and the footer with the tabs at the top right and bottom left. Let me know if you prefer them permanently open, as that can be managed. I can also remove all the posts from the first page and make it just as a regular blog, though those who read me from their reader won’t really be affected by this. I aim to please. Especially on Tuesdays.
Peace
Tags: books, Infinite Jest, reading, Twitter
Why am I first again? I feel like the person that always shows up at a party first, and has to start awkward conversations.
I’m not going to complain about the disappearance of green, because I would never do that.
I like meditation but don’t think I could dedicate myself to a book that required such for reading.
As for rainbows, I’m always hoping to be at it’s edge, again where everything, really does look golden.
I must add, that several years ago I did ride through the bottom of rainbow, and it’s refraction of light seemed to make everything give off a bright gold, yellowish ambiance.
I suppose that’s where the old pot of gold fable came from.
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I was kidding really, It’s a huge task to red this book if you can’t siphon off time just for the book though. I can’t read it unless I’m off somewhere in a room just reading. I can read most other things with all manner of commotion going on. I think though a huge undertaking this book would be right up your alley.
I read up about it on Wiki. Sounds interesting, but I’ll wait for the movie.
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As a veteran Cooper’s Layout Complainer, I like this one quite a lot. It’s understated and seems more like you than any you’ve had since that great one you used in the Blogger days.
Sanford should have stayed in Argentina.
It’s always good to know you are alive and well wombat. It’s true, I haven’t felt I was in my own skin since that blogger template. Maybe now..
I still think the first wrong step was going for the bottom bars =P
Still, this one’s good.
I’m alive and well and working on something that I hope to be able to show you soon
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I’m glad and can’t wait. Your partial satisfies me for now.
I shan’t be reading Infinite Jest any time soon. However, your link for twitter for busy people has already turned me into a believer. That page is so handy when it comes towards sifting through all the tweets I received in a day. LOL
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I may now even check it more often.
I like the new template. Very literate. Not very DC, in other words.
There are a bunch of bloggers doing a summer book club on Infinite Jest, if the book itself isn’t wordy enough.
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it’s title is erudite..as a matter of fact.
That is why my friend started doing it. We are not participating in that it was just the stimulus. We have our own little group now..you know the ones who went or go to NYU and Georgetown..not Harvard. The bottom feeders.
Cooper, that’s where the good mud lies.
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You write “level 5 sunglasses”, evidence you’ve already read too much infinite jest. we may never get you back. ;)
“Clan of he Color Spectrum” love it. My family doesn’t wish upon anything, you’re lucky.
The theme fits you and makes the writing more wonderful for it.I don’t have a preference for the bars and footers. I don’t mind opening and closing them. I like the first page look, either way is fine.
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It’s nice for a blog to have something for it’s readers to play with, especially on those days when the post is a tedious read.
I was thinking of you guys.
Love the new look. Sparse and elegant. A lot like your writing
I forget about twitter yet I know many people who do nothing else on the Internet. They think I’m crazed for having a blog – I’m not constantly checking my phone for twitter updates or getting my news that way
The “soul mate” remark is getting a lot of play around here. Many call for his resignation
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I did need a little push toward elegance, maybe this will help.
There’s no going back from this look I like it.I like the way this post was written it seems so smooth. I think it’s the theme, really. A Zen thing.
See I could not do yoga or meditation so am unfit to read such a masterpiece as Infinite Jest.
I was kidding. Almost.
Good — the description “literate”. I’d use calming or soothing too. Like the adderall to Wallace’s Infinite Jest this theme is to your writing. I know, you’re “not a writer you are a policy geek”, tell me another one.
I don’t like hypocrites. I love to see them squirm like the worms they are but you’re right, we should be spared.
Twitter –inhabited by the wanna be social media class. I started a small pretty people account, for fun. People sign up, when you don’t follow them back they disappear it’s quite useless unless you control it. I’d rather surf in real water in my free time. Life is short.
I hear ya. I only water were closer.
There’s too much going on in real life to relegate my time to twitter.
The new lay-out looks fine… you change your lay-out about as often as the tweener changes her clothes ;-) … maybe a gender thing?
(running like sarah palin in a marathon…)
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Well like I said I haven’t felt right since my old bogger template I made from a theme by a lovely girl who called herself maystar.
Maybe now..
i know men who change their clothing more than any female I know so I am not quite sure that is the case.
I like black and white. The previous one was nice too but this has more panache, with those tabs being something I could endlessly fiddle with.
I don’t think there are rules to wishing. It’s ok to wish upon things that aren’t there. I love the name “clan of the color spectrum”, makes me want a name for my clan — a word that always makes me think of cavemen.
It always makes me think of Deliverance.
You mean like the video on this post: http://run4chocolate.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/susquenita-in-negative-spotlight-with-sex-act-on-school-bus/
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ewwww sk.
This is one of your most beautiful sentences
A world where I’m forever doomed to wish upon elusive rainbows.
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And one of my more sad truths.
Since it’s now Thursday, do you still aim to please?
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Not a chance.
My three big wishing devices as a young lad were four-leaf clovers, dandelions, and candles on a birthday cake.
It seems like I don’t see as many rainbows as I used to. Has any research been done on whether or not there has been a decline in the number of rainbows?
Love the new look, Cooper. I particularly enjoy the recent posts feature at the bottom of the page.
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I ate four leaf clovers.
Not sure about rainbows, probably the pollution is weighing all that color down.
I aim to please.
I enjoyed this. Maybe because of the theme, or because I’m not committed to reading such a novel. Could be because I agree with it, or that it is written well.
In other words, I like the look, even the way the threaded comments look.
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