In one of my previous jobs, I was asked to write letters on behalf of my employer who already had an assistant for that task. The letters were meant to be simple one or two sentences expressing regrets of declining a certain invitation to attend a certain meeting or gratitude of being invited to such a well-organized event. Not being in a position to decline the task I was given, and at the same time out of fury that I was asked to perform a basic task that someone in the position of my employer is supposed to be able to do, and adding to that, that my employer had an employee whose main task was to perform what I was asked, I wrote these letters of at most two sentences with an overtly stylized language which sounded too sophisticated that rather indicated an arrogant mockery than sophistication.
My employer liked the letters that I wrote so much that he kept asking for more.
I took a Kafkaesque pleasure in my secret revenge.
a dream has landed on a cloud - this blog is not more than (or, less than) a marker board, or the surface of a fridge covered with pictures and notes and post-its. it lately intends to include some field notes in form of random observations.
November 24, 2008
June 8, 2008
What happens to a dream deferred?
HARLEM
Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
April 13, 2008
March 5, 2008
fire, gaze, the thing (or das ding)
“the outer gaze always alters the inner thing…by looking at an object we destroy it with our desire, that for accurate vision to occur the thing must be trained to see itself, or otherwise perish in blindness, flawed.”
Ben Marcus, The Age of Wire and String
Ben Marcus, The Age of Wire and String
February 9, 2008
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