July 2012
17 posts
“The thought of doing it made the blood shake in my throat.”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Broken Harbor: A Novel by Tana French
“The final step into feral is murder.”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Broken Harbor: A Novel by Tana French
Started reading Broken Harbor: A Novel by Tana... →
Finished reading The Enterprise of Death by Jesse... →
A picaresque about necromancy, roughly. Manages to be simultaneously empathetic, morally complex, raucously funny, and entangled in the abject in ways most people will probably find off-putting. I really liked it.
“Fuck had no sake here.”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in The Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington
“We ought to take a fresh look at tradition, considered not as the inert...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan
“But we also live in an electric or post-literate time”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan
“We are today as far into the electric age as the Elizabethans had advanced into...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan
“Patrick Cruttwell had devoted an entire study (The Shakespearean Moment) to the...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan
Started reading The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making... →
“In 1686 Sweden’s Lutheran Church introduced a stern scheme to raise that...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in A History of Reading (Globalities) by Steven Roger Fischer
“It changed society profoundly. Ever since, reading has been viewed not as a...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in A History of Reading (Globalities) by Steven Roger Fischer
“Whereupon one’s very concept of reading’s primary function altered: from focus...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in A History of Reading (Globalities) by Steven Roger Fischer
“With certain exceptions, mediæval reading was mostly still a collective...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in A History of Reading (Globalities) by Steven Roger Fischer
“Jones has taught himself to read Greek letters, but hasn’t learnt Greek yet....”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in A History of Reading (Globalities) by Steven Roger Fischer
“Writing prioritizes sound, as the spoken word must be transformed or...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in A History of Reading (Globalities) by Steven Roger Fischer
Started reading A History of Reading (Globalities)... →
