January 2011
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Sins committed by Indecision (an n+1 dude's novel,...
September 11th as turning point
Dutch woman as object of vague lust
Prep school reunion as culmination
Aspirational self-promotion (a book in the book is described as being printed by “n+1 books”)
Extended Tofurkey joke
… but the coup de grâce:
“Her breasts slid around intelligently beneath cotton.”
“You would never think of doing graduate work in philosophy, would you?”...”
– Benjamin Kunkel, Indecision (a novel that goes about as you would suspect, but definitely has some cleverness)
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Tumblr Staff: Getting ready for 2011 →
“We can’t apologize enough, nor can we thank you enough for putting up with these...”
– Tumblr Staff: Downtime
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youmeandmyapi:
“Approximately 10 calories of fossil fuels are required to produce every 1 calorie of food eaten in the US.”
— The Burning Platform
(via Instapaper)
Michael Pollan loves to make these comparisons as well, because they seem to provide quantitative backing to the argument for local or more sustainable food. But the comparison is fallacious. Calories are not a unit of...
