Tuesday, October 20, 2009

page-hugging.

Lutz, woo me with your tortured syntactical artistry.
This man has read 250 dictionaries of grammar usage.
He reads books backwards. (I don't always care what happens much either.)
He read The New Yorker in order to analyze punctuation, which is not a bad reason to start reading The New Yorker.

As a follow-up to my previous mention of Gary Lutz, here is a lovely little Q&A with the man,
reposted from Eugene Lim.

Watch it and experience brief self-conscious language paralysis, or seduction.
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12 comments:

  1. RachelOctober 20, 2009 at 2:38 AM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFlzYH-fYoM

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  2. Sasha October 20, 2009 at 10:47 PM

    http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/09/08/opinion/20091019_opart.html

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  3. Sasha October 20, 2009 at 10:49 PM

    oh and:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ

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  4. RachelOctober 21, 2009 at 2:10 AM

    I do not even know what to say. I'm afraid to say fuck on your nice blog. Come over to mine

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  5. UnknownOctober 24, 2009 at 11:11 PM

    Brooke is a dog. I have been thinking about dogs a lot. Maybe Kansas for you is like Olathe for me...? maybe it's all the homework. maybe i will write you an email...my eyes hurt. I went to the dentist today and stole my file and read it in the bathroom while this toddler was banging on the door and her dad was saying, that is not ok! Chris says they'd probably let me see my file if I asked, but he liked how I was like a secret agent. There are moths at my parents' house they try to catch in between their hands and mom asks me if things are ok and refuses to be anything but beautiful and interesting and good. I feel like we could probably do a lot of things, you and I, like a team.

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  6. jsOctober 27, 2009 at 6:32 PM

    is he referring to the em dash when he talks about hypens? i love the em dash. did you know a line of text should be about 30 em dashes long in order to optimize readability? typography is fun

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  7. Sasha November 5, 2009 at 11:12 AM

    well, you got your em dash; you got your en dash; you got your dash. i too am an avid em dasher.

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  8. UnknownNovember 6, 2009 at 9:54 PM

    do you ever go out with your glasses on?

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  9. Sasha November 8, 2009 at 10:22 PM

    no never. only when i first get my glasses but then they get heavy and lose appeal. do you? i have a feeling your vision is perfect.

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  10. jsNovember 9, 2009 at 5:23 PM

    ah, of course you know the myriad and sundry dashes—you've got bona fide editor credentials.

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  11. UnknownNovember 16, 2009 at 12:07 AM

    are you kidding me I got glasses when I was five

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  12. RachelDecember 12, 2009 at 12:42 PM

    my phone is dead. i miss you. write me a very, very good email all about yourself and your life now.

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