Claire | November 3, 2011
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.” -Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: [...]
Claire | October 4, 2011
“We live in a tired world—a tired world—a world that has gone on piling up speculation and observations until truths that might been graspable in the bright Dayspring of human morning—by the young Plotinus or the ecstatic John on Patmos—are obscured by palimpsest on palimpsest…. [T]he lovely lines of faith that sprung up in aspiring [...]
Claire | June 15, 2011
I seldom post so-called “Serious Stuff” here, simply because I don’t have the time in the rush of life. But because I was able to write something that dealt with a serious topic recently, and because I do feel strongly about this issue, I thought I’d post it here. This is the essay I wrote [...]
Claire | April 27, 2011
“It seemed unreasonable, unfair, that a woman so young and beautiful should be so exhausted. Of course, it was neither unreasonable nor unfair. Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.” -Haruki Murakami, Dance, Dance, Dance (1994)
Claire | April 23, 2011
*Note. This entry is posted out of order so as to conceal any relation to real life, including date at which this was written. Lordy day. What’s a girl gotta do to get a little attention? What a waste of eyeliner. Granted, I can, and did, do my shower, hair, and make-up in 15 minutes [...]
Claire | March 25, 2011
Nouns and verbs are enough for soldiers and leaders of totalitarian countries. For the adjective is the indispensable guarantor of the individuality of people and things. I see a pile of melons at a fruit stand. For an opponent of adjectives, this matter presents no difficulty. “Melons are piled on the fruit stand.” Meanwhile, one [...]
Claire | March 4, 2011
Just got home. Ate practically nothing all day except cake (though Ms. Deloughrey did provide me with a samosa mmm) so I am now eating baked beans and leftover omelet…at 8 pm. Sigh C, your eating schedule will never right itself will it? Listening to Lily Allen’s “Who’d Have Known” as I do on practically [...]
Claire | January 31, 2011
Perhaps this trauma of separation-beginning from our very birth-is the normal sequence of things and to detach oneself, to learn to move freely about the world without longings or inventions, takes years of patient learning; and even then we may turn one day and find the years hollowing a dark canyon beneath us. -Loving Che, [...]
Claire | December 7, 2010
Tonight I couldn’t decide if I was warm or cold. But I know I want more warm things in my life.
Claire | November 6, 2010
Today, I ordered Robert Hass‘s Sun Under Wood and Louise Gluck‘s The Wild Iris (for $7 each for used copies on Amazon, so not too bad). I also renewed my Writer’s Chronicle subscription, mostly because they sent me a pleading letter, and I did enjoy last year’s issues, even if I thought they were rather [...]
