December 2011
12 posts
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
– Rita Mae Brown (via scottmcrissman)
“Take, for instance, “The Man of Law’s Tale,” the fifth of the Canterbury Tales...”
– Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue
(or: How All the Authors You’ve Ever Heard of Wrote Lesbian Love Stories and No One Told You)
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I just finished writing a paper on Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red, a book in which Islamic miniaturists in 16th century Istanbul kill each other over warring conceptions of art and images debate the merits of being depicted as they appear in reality or as ideal forms. It’s a book that starts slow and then unpacks so many chewy, complicated, contradictory ideas that it’s impossible...