narcasse | "I'm as dark as December; I'm as cold as the Man in the Moon" (Reply)

"Writers are people who write. By and large, they are not happy people. They're not good at relationships. Often they're drunks. And writing -- good writing -- does not get easier and easier with practice. It gets harder and harder -- so eventually the writer must stall out into silence. The silence that waits for every writer and that, inevitably, if only with death (if we're lucky the two may happen at the same time: but they are still two, and their coincidence is rare), the writer must fall into is angst-ridden and terrifying - and often drives us mad. (In a letter to Allen Tate, the poet Hart Crane once described writing as "dancing on dynamite.") So if you're not a writer, consider yourself fortunate."

- Samuel R. Delany’s About Writing quoted here.

Don’t Delay - Penny Arcade

Not the economy, stupid - Nick Robinson’s Newslog
Cameron lacks relevant significators in his discourse. And without building on established floating signifiers he seems to be having an entirely different conversation to everyone else.

Bad arguments about academic standards - A don’s life
One of the comments here suggests that cheating at postgrad level would be easier than at undergrad which strikes me as strange. At undergrad there’s the ability to not contribute in any fashion that shows that you actually understand the topic at hand, so you could theoretically limit your interaction to regurgitating learnt points in exams; at postgrad you’d damn well better know what you’re talking about when you’re sitting in a little office opposite your supervisor.

Christian attitude towards same sex unions may not always have been as ‘straight’ as is now suggested - Jim Duffy

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