Prose | Kamiel Choi

Math

Dear Miru, Your calculating is improving and you actually like it. We play with numbers together. Two times ten is twenty. Six plus five is eleven. Ten minus 2 equals eight. It is all very playful. You learn how to figure out calculations by making drawings of dots, lines, squares on the whiteboard. You don't ...

Reading: Résumé by Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) has lead a tempestuous life with several marriages, some suicides attempt and employment by Vanity Fair. One of her collections is called 'enough rope' and I can't supress a sinister feeling. However, she stayed alive and became a productive screenwriter and poet. I sample a very short piece here, because short verse ...

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. - Derek Walcott

⇒ ...but I don't want to be a cynical asshole ⇒ ...but I don't want to be a naive idiot ⇒

Phallacy

Phallacy (m) - A fallacy caused by phallogocentric contemplation, or, in colloquial terms, thinking with one's dick

The Gods are Back

The gods are back, companions. Right now they have just entered this life; but the words that revoke them, whispered underneath the words that reveal them, have also appeared that we might suffer together. - René Char

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life — Terry Pratchett

Well, if it's a choice between my personal interest and the good of my country, how can I waver? No one shall say Ninotchka was a bad Russian. - Ernst Lubitsch, Ninotchka

For maggots, happiness is just around the coroner