His eyes were deep, far too deep. They were the depthless drugged eyes of the somnambulist. They were like a well I read about once. It was nine hundred years old, in an old castle. You could drop a stone into it and wait. You could listen and wait and then you would give up waiting and laugh and then just as you were ready to turn away a faint, minute splash would come back up to you from the bottom of that well, so tiny, so remote that you could hardly believe a well like that possible.
Raymond Chandler
Farewell, My Lovely
#books #literature #hardboiled #crimenovels
I wish I were old enough to know what it would’ve been like to make out to Spandau Ballet’s True in the bucket seats of my 1986 Datsun.
Oh no, the system of indentured servitude that we’ve created is at risk of becoming more equitable towards the working class?
I have an idea: stop paying c-suites so much money. nostr:note1xq84msel5j0gyq0j4vlz0zxeu2gm4w2x73zlul23kpkg4yhswnzsdw8gag
John Cheever’s writing reminds me so much of Carson McCullers’ writing. Oof.
It was a harsh and an ugly light, stretched like some upholstery webbing beneath the damask of the year.
John Cheever
The Wapshot Scandal
#literature #writing #books
He was a traveler, familiar with the miseries of loneliness, with the violence of its sexuality, with its half-conscious imagery of highways and thruways like the projections of a bewildered spirit; with that forlorn and venereal limbo that must have flowed over the world before the invention of Venus, unknown to good and evil, ruled by pain.
John Cheever
The Wapshot Scandal
#literature #writing #books
He felt uncommonly happy in this sparsely populated place; felt some marked loosening of his discontents.
John Cheever The Wapshot Scandal
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#currentlyreading #johncheever #literature 
All the poetry in the world is in that face.
Christopher Isherwood
The Berlin Stories
#literature
This can’t be street legal. 
Happy birthday, Miss Nina Simone
Imagine being in his lawyer army, having to deal with his insanity for months, losing the case, not getting paid, then getting fired by him. nostr:note10rh34f3qhrx8zre9ck4f0v82lgy4hv6l2ttgd0n0dx0sjxm26pgs7sctdp
“These nodes are intended, and designed, to be decentralized. In practice, however, they are heavily centralized. This is due to the low cost of entry and the reduced complexity of running blockchain nodes in the cloud. The advantages of public cloud to node operators are similar to the advantages to any enterprise IT department: low cost of entry, reduced complexity and pay-as-you-grow scale.
These advantages drive many node operators to the public cloud, which is dominated by a few companies globally. In its current state, the "decentralized" blockchain is often recentralized on dominant providers like AWS. For example, according to Ethernodes (via Cointelegraph), one of the most popular blockchain networks, Ethereum, had an estimated 52% of the nodes processing its ledger running in AWS as of August 2022. There is nothing decentralized about that.”
6am on a Monday in an Uber to JFK and my dude is blasting Tina Turner and Gloria Gaynor and I could never hate on it. He’s fiercely catapulting me into the week.
I going to write a poem called
“For the price of an Apple Vision Pro”
We’re mining the moon? Is nothing sacred? nostr:note1tmj97560hmp5ht4tnjgrw0fj8fs9qx3xqsm52y24f0q6rzr9sjkqe45t5f
Wondering if I should try Sobebruary. (Sober February).
The tiny flame of the lighter flickered between us, as perishable as the atmosphere which our exaggerated politeness had created. The merest breath would have extinguished the one, the least incautious gesture or word would have destroyed the other.
Christopher Isherwood
The Last of Mr. Norris
#literature #writing
Once again the air reeks of microwaved popcorn. Once again I am only who I am.
George Saunders
Offloading for Mrs. Schwartz
Gerard Malanga #poetry 