tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post5976189728506757277..comments2024-03-27T13:13:25.164-04:00Comments on johnshaplin: Concentrated Deskwork by David Foster Wallacejohnshaplinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-66550365650543671602015-01-16T20:20:53.614-05:002015-01-16T20:20:53.614-05:00928874551
Sugar in cake has several different f...928874551<br /><br /><br /><br />Sugar in cake has several different functions. One, for instance, is the absorb moisture from the butter, or perhaps shortening, and release it slowly over time, keeping the cake moist. Using less sugar than the recipe calls for produces what is known as a dry cake. Don’t do that. (page 105)<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Pale King by David Foster Wallace<br />johnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-11849905455372689352015-01-16T20:20:21.580-05:002015-01-16T20:20:21.580-05:00984047863
Our house was outside the city, off one...984047863<br /><br />Our house was outside the city, off one of the blacktop roads. We had us a big dog that my daddy would keep on a chain in the front yard. A big part German shepherd. I hated that chain but we didn’t have a fence, we were right off the road there. That dog hated that chain. But he had dignity. What he’d do, he’d never go out to the length of that chain. He’d never even go out to where that chain got tight. Even if a mailman pulled up, or a salesman. Out of dignity, this dog pretended like he chose this one area to stay in that just happened to be inside the length of the chain. He just up and made it not relevant. Maybe he wasn’t pretending – maybe he really up and chose that little circle for his own world. He had a power to him. All his life on that chain. I loved that damned dog.”(page 117)<br />johnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-72374788817173956522015-01-16T20:19:55.095-05:002015-01-16T20:19:55.095-05:00So imagine you are a type two. There’s more than t...So imagine you are a type two. There’s more than they think. The age of the rebel is over. It’s the eighties now. If You’re a Type Two, We Want You- that should be their slogan. Check out the blowing wind, man. Join up with the side that always gets paid. We shit you not. The side of the law and the force of the law, the side of the tide and gravity and that one law where everything always gradually gets a little hotter until the sun up and blows. Because you got your two unavoidables in life, just like they say. Unavoidability – now that’s power, man. Either be a mortician or join the Service, if you want to line yourself up with real power. Have the wind at your back. Tell them listen: Spit with the wind, it goes a whole lot further. You can trust me on that, my man. (page 105)johnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-31626298272433200472015-01-16T20:19:26.401-05:002015-01-16T20:19:26.401-05:00973876118
You’ve got your two kinds of people now...973876118<br /><br />You’ve got your two kinds of people now, when you get down to it. On the one hand you’ve got your rebel mentality whose whole bag or groove or what have you is going against power, rebelling. Your spit-in-the-wind type who feels powerful going against power and the Establishment and what have you. Then, type two, you’ve got the other type, which is the soldier personality, the type that believes in order and power and respects authority and aligns themselves with power and authority and the side of order and the way the whole thing has got to work if the system’s going to run smoothly.<br />johnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-46914706642014054112011-04-22T13:24:04.150-04:002011-04-22T13:24:04.150-04:00[46] This sense of personal disorganization, which...[46] This sense of personal disorganization, which of course is very common, was for me heightened by the fact that I had very little trouble analyzing other people's basic character and motivations, strengths and weaknesses, & c., while all attempts at self-analysis resulted in a tangle of contradictory and hopelessly complex facts and tendencies, impossible to sort out or draw general conclusions from.johnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.com