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Infinite Jest | Works in Progress
https://djpowell.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/infinite-jest
8216;We are all dying to give ourselves away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately–the object seemed incidental to this will to give one-self away, utterly. To games or needles, to some other person. Something pathetic about it. A flight-from in the form of a plunging-into. Flight from exactly what? 8217; – David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, pg 900. 8217; Instead, there is the simple clarity of the created meaning. the internal evocation of emotion and feeling.
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On dying. | Works in Progress
https://djpowell.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/on-dying
Here’s what I think. As often happens with things that really don’t have much to do with you, or are affecting only at a distance, through those that are close to you, I’ve been considering what I hope people say at my own funeral. Macabre, yes, but totally usual, I think. We don’t really say things like that anymore, these days, if we ever did. Maybe we didn’t. But language is powerful, and verbalizing things do make them real. So, what do I want them to say about me? Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Works in Progress | Page 2
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Grey days of charleston. Do you ever feel like it would be nice to be told what to do? Move Hate your job? Quit Need a new mp3 player? Go buy one. Want to eat Oreos for dinner? Sure So that’s nice. But what about when things go so far in that direction that we are not beholden to anyone? It’s the existence of something other than vacuum. I wrote here. No more emo, I promise. Elvis Rocks. Don’t Hate. That it’s foolish–which are two different things. And the eternal cycle of rebirth. Islam demands a re...
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New Year’s Resolutions | Works in Progress
https://djpowell.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/new-years-resolutions
New Year’s Resolutions. There’s a few things I’d like to get together, a few changes of habit I’d like to get in to. So, at the risk of oversharing, here area few of my new year’s resolutions:. 2 Responses to “New Year’s Resolutions”. 20 February 2009 at 10:04 am. 7 December 2009 at 6:21 am. Namaste’, Daniel…I’m proud to know you. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email.
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pride and prejudice | Works in Progress
https://djpowell.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/pride-and-prejudice
I would hope, anyways. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Grey days of charleston.
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motes in the eye | Works in Progress
https://djpowell.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/motes-in-the-eye
Motes in the eye. Of course, it’s so much more. It is the seat of consciousness and reason, of love and belief, of humanity. Check out these images of neurons in the brain and the way they connect:. I found this somewhat extraordinary the first time I looked at these pictures side by side. To see that the universe, that collections of stars, galaxies and galaxy filaments. Mirror the structure of the brain, is astounding. Split a piece of wood; I am there. One Response to “motes in the eye”. I too have be...
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laundry day. | Works in Progress
https://djpowell.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/laundry-day
At the same time, I remember thinking that it was stupid to have such feelings about a laundromat; after all, where else are these people supposed to do their laundry? 4 Responses to “laundry day.”. 15 January 2009 at 12:00 pm. I also wrote a story entitled Laundry Day. I remember going to the laundromat with my mother and thought it a treat because there was a color tv there – remember watching the Flintstones. 16 January 2009 at 1:00 am. First off, I finally read this entry! 20 January 2009 at 10:40 am.
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The Man Behind the Curtain | Works in Progress
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The Man Behind the Curtain. I grew up and went to school. In Charleston I became myself, loved books so much I majored in them, learned too much Latin, and found the friends I’d always looked for. These days, I spend time with those friends, taking in the world, while I use my English major to better wait tables until The Next Big Thing (TNBT, for short) which will occur any day now…. 2 Responses to “The Man Behind the Curtain”. 6 March 2008 at 10:46 am. 23 November 2009 at 9:10 pm.
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Daily Coffee | Works in Progress
https://djpowell.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/daily-coffee
The first cup of coffee I drink, no matter the time or the place, holds an almost totemic pleasure for me. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. On dying. ».
