TapeOper's favorite past time...

[black ark]

for short stories try david foster wallace's

"the girl with curious hair"

it's a compilation of his short stories and the last one;
"westward the course of empire takes its way" is sooo fucking rad i always blink twice after i finish to make sure i'm really here and not there...

man, wallace is the king of digression...

just re-read "the hobbit" too, starting on "the fountainhead" again. it's a summer for old favorites i think...

-paul m

[djimbe]

So I increased the readers by one. Seems very hard for me to go a summer without reading either "Walden", or "Cape Cod", and I really can't go a day without reading something for pleasure. Mostly my tastes run toward Bertrand Russel and Joseph Campbell, and anything having to do with the history of science, especially what used to be called natural philosophy, and physics. And Hunter Thompson. Can't forget him. Too bad gardening isn't a choice, 'cause if I can't be at the studio, I wanna be in one of my gardens...

[DUC]

Thanks for the short story tips.

[I'm Painting Again]

..and Joseph Campbell..

power of myth is great


He used to teach at the school near my house.

[DUC]

..and Joseph Campbell..

No offense, but I think he's the biggest blow hard exercising in mental masturbation to utter blindness.

Him and Deepak Chopra.

Hey, whatever floats yer boat, eh?

[trashy]

My wife always assigns me summer reading. She's a bookworm. I must admit that I love to read as well...

...but it's summer and there's a baseball game to be watched, and basketball to be played.



Philip Larkin
"A Study of Reading Habits"

When getting my nose in a book
Cured most things short of school,
It was worth ruining my eyes
To know I could still keep cool,
And deal out the old right hook
To dirty dogs twice my size.

Later, with inch-think specs,
Evil was just my lark:
Me and my cloak and fangs
Had ripping times in the dark.
The women I clubbed with sex!
I broke them up like meringues.

Don't read much now: the dude
Who lets the girl down before
The hero arrives, the chap
Who's yellow and keeps the store,
Seem far too familiar. Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.

--1964