Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
7/21: titling
I'm still listening to Michel Faber's Book of Strange New Things, and I really like how he titles his chapters. Each chapter's title is a phrase or clause that ends the last sentence of the chapter--so you know something about what you'll be moving toward, but you don't know exactly what's meant or the context in which it will apply. And then when you finally arrive at it, it all clicks into place. The effect is even better because I'm listening to the book rather than reading it, so I don't even have the usual visual clues that the end of a chapter is coming.
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