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Ethan

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About Me

It's midnight on Easter and as I wait for Veronica to get off work I read this:"These first and second attributes of beauty are very close to one another, for to say that something is "sacred" is also to say either "it has no precedent" or "it has as its only precedent that which is itself unprecedented." But there is also a third feature: beauty is lifesaving. Homer is not alone in seeing beauty as lifesaving. Augustine described it as "a plank amid the waves of the sea." Proust makes a version of this claim over and over again. Beauty quickens. It adrenalizes. It makes the heart beat faster. It makes life more vivid, animated, living worth living. But what exactly is the claim or--more to the point--exactly how literal is the claim that it saves lives or directly confers the gift of life? [...] it as as though one has suddenly been washed up onto a merciful beach: all unease, aggression, indifference suddenly drop back behind one, like a surf that has for a moment lost its capacity to do harm." --from On Beauty and Being Just, by Elaine Scarry

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Myself in five years.

Music:

send me some. i lost all mine.

Movies:

the lives of others, in the mood for love, city of god, red, blue, amelie, winged migration, born into brothels.

Television:

nope.

Books:

a book of luminous things, nine stories, brothers k, end of the road, the magic bicycle.

Heroes:

Danda, Jeffrey Sachs, Devon, Trey, Nick.

My Blog

two from yeats

The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blo...
Posted by Ethan on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:39:00 PST

jet lag

by Eve RobillardHe flies over the ocean to see his girl, his Sorbonnegirl, his ginger-skinned girl waiting for him in the Cityof Light. Everywhere river and almost-spring gardens,everywhere bridges an...
Posted by Ethan on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:39:00 PST

woven through and through

sometimes we're so woven throughit gets soi forget we're two.othertimes our rivers runso intertwinedit's like we're one.that's when i must stop and listeninhale slowand let time through in that moment...
Posted by Ethan on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 03:11:00 PST

wow

http://www.cyberiapc.com/gallery/pic_details.php?pid=143
Posted by Ethan on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:36:00 PST

jiri kylian - pas de deux

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETf9qPJYyWk
Posted by Ethan on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:39:00 PST

up wake

    www.upwake.comclick on the preview.
Posted by Ethan on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:33:00 PST

sunset blvd.

you being in lovehear her saybring your toothbrushhang up the phonethrow on pajama pantsgrab your car keysand are outthe door.sunset blvdis a long and windingthoroughfarewhich beginson olvera streetan...
Posted by Ethan on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:12:00 PST

january 18

Sarah: One afternoon I'm sitting in Starbucks and I notice two friends, a guy and a girl, give another guy the girl's phone number. They exit the coffeeshop and leave the guy alone at his table. After...
Posted by Ethan on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:08:00 PST

october 2

One of the most mysterious things in the world to me is a note slipped under the door. Think about it. You leave your hotel room for a moment, maybe to get ice, you return to find a white envelope par...
Posted by Ethan on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:06:00 PST

september 29, i think

Already it's fading away as I try and remember all that's gone on the past two, in some sense, six, hours.  I've just set up camp in the Comfort Inn off I-10 in Fort Stockton, TX. There wasn't an...
Posted by Ethan on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:55:00 PST