called Dennis to be sure of his phone number. His place is larger than the western one and has six windows, pairs, facing three directions out into the courtyard. East, west and north. Asked him to send some photos.
Sunday. Strange chatter, flutist and singer. Her father from Iran (as the US bombs Iran this weekend). Mother from here. Amazing voice, very strange new piece, young composers. We went to Thai Boran for lunch then drove around the Delyne streets with the views of the crest.
Handke One set of passages about his reader. "I went so far as to copy out sentences from his letters: 'I exist in order to read.'" "I saw the reader on his way to founding a sect, a sect of readers. And thus he claimed for himself and his followers exclusivity, infallibility, singularity vis-à-vis the mere crowd."
exactly how social media works!!! this he wrote in 1992--?
mid-to-late 1990s, with SixDegrees.com (1997) widely considered the first, allowing profiles and friend lists. It gained mainstream traction in the early 2000s with platforms like Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), and Facebook (2004).
few pages before he had noted that his Japanese architect friend lives almost exclusively on rice and fruit
"I have no choice but to use an undifferentiated 'I' as the subject of my active and passive experiences, no matter how fale it rings to me."
"Onward. Through." 83
Now---to send these pens, fountain pens, to Kirsten or not? They sit here and I do not take them up, clean them, use them. She write beautifully with a fountain pen. She would care for them. Or keep them and pass them on eventually to other real pen appreciators. Or would she? Does it really matter to me or not?
Without reading, he said, he could not see the day in a day. The work that suited him was, and remained, reading and deciphering things. And wasn't writing an invention that to this day held a secret power? 78
