September 15th, 2010 / 2:31 pm
Behind the Scenes
Blake Butler
Behind the Scenes
Paris Review Blog 404
This is why I like the internet somewhat: Joyce typos caused by quick updates even from the glossies.
Or maybe it’s no typo? Maybe “momentairly” is a more beautiful way to remind you that on the internet part of the fun is the making of whoompers, and sometimes whoompers are the charm.
Anyway, in however long it takes a momentairly to pass (perhaps it is over by the time you are reading this, realtime, shooing this icon to the PR web fodder bin), the Paris Review blog will return with a two week series of guest posts featuring Lydai Davis considering the act of translation, which we could surely use some help with anytime.
Tags: Lydia Davis, Paris review
It’s “Lydai Divas”, Bleak. Geez louise.
* Louis.
define whoomper?
…And quick, before our resident roaming parser gets here!
I like the Paris Review for having once published a silly piece by Yoko Ono.
I like silliness. I like Yoko.
Even if she did or did not break up the Beatles. Whatever.
I like “momentairly”, also. Thanks for the heads-up. Perhaps I’ll start using that word, from now on.
Oh, I seem to have missed it. He’s right up there at the top. Oh, well.
No, I’m sure it’s “geez”.
Thanks for coughing, Bezoarwen.
If you want, of course, you can always revert to the original Irish.
What’s your name, by the way?
Like you “revert” your dessert on these threads, Bezoarwen?
My haiku’s name is The Thinker:
hm gibber garble
burble babble emowen
blither blather cough
It’s “Lydai Divas”, Bleak. Geez louise.
* Louis.
define whoomper?
…And quick, before our resident roaming parser gets here!
I like the Paris Review for having once published a silly piece by Yoko Ono.
I like silliness. I like Yoko.
Even if she did or did not break up the Beatles. Whatever.
I like “momentairly”, also. Thanks for the heads-up. Perhaps I’ll start using that word, from now on.
Oh, I seem to have missed it. He’s right up there at the top. Oh, well.
No, I’m sure it’s “geez”.
Thanks for coughing, Bezoarwen.
If you want, of course, you can always revert to the original Irish.
What’s your name, by the way?
Like you “revert” your dessert on these threads, Bezoarwen?
My haiku’s name is The Thinker:
hm gibber garble
burble babble emowen
blither blather cough
Owen, deaders: if you’re wondering why I dropped out of the political conversation (which saw your alarming new alliance: http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/sometimes-i-wonder-if-i-make-life-dramatic-for-the-effect/#comment-93959), it’s because Reynard decided to delete yesterday night’s (non-abusive, profanity-free) comment and the latest is in “moderation”. Whatever, as they say. Just didn’t want you two (or mimi) to feel abandoned! Laugh.
Welcome to the club.
@Steverino
“Most of your taxes go to bomb-making and bomb-housing and bomb-delivery-systems.”
It was this line of yours and its simplicity that said so much to me, thus my Barbara Lee sentiment on the other, “political” thread.
I don’t talk politics so much with the rest of you (I usually like to keep my comments short) (so people will read them – ha ha!) but I do get a lot out of reading the discussions.
PS – I keep wanting to address you as “Mr. Fox”.
Steven, I saw it last night, thought of replying, and left the Lenin quotation as a ‘last word’. (I was going to say – and will now – that it’s your ilk of bilk that’s leading the really neutralized resistance. Yes, yes: ‘I know you are but what am I.’ – but I said it first! Ha ha ha!)
As you say, an utterly unobjectionable post – perhaps a site malfunction (rather than a mod event)?
I’m pretty insulted by this last communique, though. Surprised it’s still ‘here’.
Owen, deaders: if you’re wondering why I dropped out of the political conversation (which saw your alarming new alliance: http://htmlgiant.com/snippet/sometimes-i-wonder-if-i-make-life-dramatic-for-the-effect/#comment-93959), it’s because Reynard decided to delete yesterday night’s (non-abusive, profanity-free) comment and the latest is in “moderation”. Whatever, as they say. Just didn’t want you two (or mimi) to feel abandoned! Laugh.
Welcome to the club.
@Steverino
“Most of your taxes go to bomb-making and bomb-housing and bomb-delivery-systems.”
It was this line of yours and its simplicity that said so much to me, thus my Barbara Lee sentiment on the other, “political” thread.
I don’t talk politics so much with the rest of you (I usually like to keep my comments short) (so people will read them – ha ha!) but I do get a lot out of reading the discussions.
PS – I keep wanting to address you as “Mr. Fox”.
Steven, I saw it last night, thought of replying, and left the Lenin quotation as a ‘last word’. (I was going to say – and will now – that it’s your ilk of bilk that’s leading the really neutralized resistance. Yes, yes: ‘I know you are but what am I.’ – but I said it first! Ha ha ha!)
As you say, an utterly unobjectionable post – perhaps a site malfunction (rather than a mod event)?
I’m pretty insulted by this last communique, though. Surprised it’s still ‘here’.
Okay, but let’s not see it spread to here.
Perhaps I shouldn’t’ve posted what I posted. Perhaps I shouldn’t’ve started the conversation in the first place. But I happen to think it’s critical. Oh, well. I don’t like negativity, but if follows me everywhere.
(Unrelated: Why do I have to re-enter my info, now, in every thread I post in?)