Code Inconnu:
- I give.
- You get somebody who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there’s a dog. from ‘Infinte Jest’ by David Foster Wallace
a fun thing I wanted to do …and now I have a funny motivation to do it!
i n f i n i t e s u m m e rthe challenge
Join endurance bibliophiles from around the world in reading Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009, June 21st to September 22nd. A thousand pages1 ÷ 92 days = 75 pages a week. No sweat.
1. Plus endnotesa.
a. A lot of them.
Interesting article on New Scientist about languages from the past that are still unknown to us. Kind of ‘lost in untranslatable’…
do you speak Rongo-Rongo?
Non possiamo sapere se il risultato accontenterà o scontenterà i nostalgici, tra cui non ci annoveriamo. Possiamo però dire che senz’altro sorprenderà, perché è diverso da tutto quel che abbiamo scritto finora. Dopo quest’impresa torneremo sul trittico atlantico, nel mondo esplorato in Manituana e American Parmigiano, nei modi e tempi che decideremo insieme.
Love & Death (by Woody Allen)
- Sonja: Boris, Let me show you how absurd your position is. Let's say there is no God, and each man is free to do exactly as he chooses. What prevents you from murdering somebody?
- Boris: Murder's immoral.
- Sonja: Immorality is subjective.
- Boris: Yes, but subjectivity is objective.
- Sonja: Not in a rational scheme of perception.
- Boris: Perception is irrational. It implies immanence.
- Sonja: But judgment of any system of phenomena exists in any rational, metaphysical or epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur in the thing itself, or of the thing itself.
- Boris: Yeah, I've said that many times...
Tortoise : new album out soon!
“Beacons of Ancestorship” coming out in June.

tracklisting:
01. High Class Slim Came Floatin’ In
02. Prepare Your Coffin
03. Northern Something
04. Gigantes
05. Penumbra
06. Yinxianghechengqi
07. The Fall Of Seven Diamonds Plus One
08. Minors
09. Monument Six One Thousand
10. de Chelly
11. Charteroak Foundation
(At fucking last!)

the Wooden Birds - false alarm (morr music/barsuk)
aka the latest reincarnation of Andrew Kenny of American Analog Set.

