December 2011
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Anonymous asked: should things then, and people , remain unknown?
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Mister Chu has been reading
firstly this:
Almost all medical professionals have seen what we call “futile care” being performed on people. That’s when doctors bring the cutting edge of technology to bear on a grievously ill person near the end of life. The patient will get cut open, perforated with tubes, hooked up to machines, and assaulted with drugs. All of this occurs in the Intensive Care Unit at a cost of tens of...
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“If you were a Republican in 2011, and you liked Donald Trump, and then you liked...”
– Bill Maher
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“Happiness is someone to love, something to hope for, and something to do.”
– Carol Estrich
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck (via sweepingstatements)
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“11.
We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes...”
– Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching (via calyxxxx)
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Brownie’s uncle made him a guitar from a...
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“It is a parent’s task to allow themselves to be invisibly exceeded.”
– Nanny Chu and Henry.
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omnes vulnerant, postuma necat
all [minutes] wound, the last kills
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Anonymous asked: Dear Mister Chu, it has recently (in the past 5 minutes or so) come to my attention that horrible occurrences seem a thousandfold worse when they happen on a day which you thought to be "lucky". How may one fight back this feeling and see sense?
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“Poets go to bed earliest, followed by short story writers, then novelists. The...”
– From Ann Beattie’s “Seven Truths About Writers, Rarely Discussed”, via the New Yorker’s Book Bench blog. (via literarypiano)
Mister Chu:
It would seem, and in the experience of my own, that painters do not sleep at all.
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Mister Chu at 33,000 feet sees
that night is never quite certain between zones of different time like the middle of age between young and old.
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armenotti:
living in the desert has taught me to go inside myself for shade
—Richard Shelton
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Mister Chu:
There is something redundant and powerful about forcing ice down into the throat of a garbage disposal system.
Always waiting, knowing no different, ready to cut and grind without question. Drain freeze cocktail. Somewhat of a loud sound in the quiet house tonight.
Many years ago in the southern part of Incheon I watched (we watched) a man force another man’s hand fed...
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“The further you go away
the bigger the small things are.”
– Nanny Chu
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Mister Chu draws with honey
in the bottom of his tea cup (not in a Nina Simone ‘put a little sugar in my bowl’ kind of way).
He can’t seem to find Tupelo honey here now, perhaps those bees are sleeping, but still. But still, Texas wildflower honey is most acceptable with the collection of night herbs that he mixes up and jostles into a Number Four tea sack each evening as soon as there’s nothing but...
Poetbabble: A Story About the Body : Robert Hass →
poetbabble:
The young composer, working that summer at an artist’s colony, had watched her for a week. She was Japanese, a painter, almost sixty, and he thought he was in love with her. He loved her work, and her work was like the way she moved her body, used her hands, looked at him directly when she mused…
“Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it...”
– Charles Baudelaire
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“All of life is a journey between states of opacity and clarity. It is the desire...”
– Seymour Phillips
Mister Chu is not Dean Young
but he feels this feels about right, in the way that poems can sometimes be about someone else entirely, someone foreign, but at other times they can be simply about you, however foreign they are:
Sunflower
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Mister Chu does not speak in this way
but he does think this same language even if in his own other language.
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Brief Reflection on the Theory of Relativity
Albert Einstein, in conversation - (Knowledge is discovering what to say) - in conversation one day with Paul Valéry, was asked:
Mr. Einstein, how do you work with your ideas? Do you note them down the moment they strike you? Or only at night? Or in the morning?
Albert Einstein replied: Monsieur Valéry, in our business ideas are so rare that if a man hits upon one he certainly won’t...
Anonymous asked: ODI et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. How has Mister Chu loved and hated?
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“Two recent canine studies showed that dogs who eavesdropped on experimenters who...”
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Mister Chu behaves similarly always and for good reason. There is also the matter of sleeping in warm spots, scratching and licking, and chasing after things without much obvious purpose (but with evident pleasure). [Every trip has a dog or two]
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Mister Chu does not believe
the coffee in Europe is different to that found in America, as a root concept at least, but the idea of any morning (always a morning) in Madrid or Chicago when associated with coffee is almost wholly other.
Coffee has its American place. Personally and culturally (nationally) also. America is on the go. Spinning. Rotating into the immediate future. Always ‘can do’ rather than...
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“You don’t get the skin without the hair”
– Nanny Chu
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“The essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we...”
– Daniel Kahneman
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