A Blog of Satyrs

I started two blogs on blogspot. These are Hornets! Hornets!, a chronicle of my adventures in student teaching (which technically haven't started yet)  and Itinerary for Becoming an Intellectual which will be about shit that I read/want to read.

As such, I might be posting here even less than I currently do. So. Read teh blogz.

Bodies of Work -- Kathy Acker
The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States -- Paul Avrich
The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
The Last Unicorn -- Peter Beagle
The Mafia of a Sicilian Village: 1860-1960 -- Anton Blok
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles -- Mike Davis
Neveryona -- Samuel Delany
Time Square Red, Time Square Blue -- Samuel Delany
Four Novels of the 1960s -- Philip K. Dick
Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che -- Max Elbaum
The Sound and the Fury -- William Faulkner
Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and its Origins -- Joseph Fontenrose
Neverwhere -- Neil Gaiman
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a 16th Century Miller -- Carlo Ginzburg
The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist -- Emile Habiby
The Glass Bead Game -- Herman Hesse
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression -- Robin D. G. Kelley
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka -- Ernst Pawell
The Story of O -- Pauline Reage
Salvation Army -- Abdellah Taia

When I was a young man, and very well thought of
There was nought I could ask that the ladies denied.
I nibbled their hearts like a handful of raisins,
And I never spoke love, but I knew that I lied.
But I said to myself, "Ah, there's none of them knows
The secret I shelter, and savor, and save.
I wait for the one who can see through my seeming
And I'll know when I love by the way I behave".

The years they passed over like clouds in the heavens,
The ladies went by me like snow on the wind.
I charmed and I cheated, deceived and dissembled
And I sinned, and I sinned and I sinned and I sinned.
But I said to myself,"Ah, there's none of them knows
There's a part of me pure as the whisk of a wave.
My love may be late, but she'll find I have been faithful
And I'll know when I love by the way I behave".

At last came a lady, both knowing and tender
Who said "You are not at all what they take you to be".
I betrayed her before she had quite finished speaking,
And she swallowed cold poison, and jumped in the sea.
And I say to myself, when there's time for a word,
As I gracefully grow more debauched and depraved.
"Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger
And I know how I loved by the way I behaved".

Bodies of Work -- Kathy Acker
The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
Neveryona -- Samuel Delany
Four Novels of the 1960s -- Philip K. Dick
Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che -- Max Elbaum
The Sound and the Fury -- William Faulkner
Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and its Origins -- Joseph Fontenrose
The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist -- Emile Habiby
The Glass Bead Game -- Herman Hesse
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression -- Robin D. G. Kelley
Salvation Army -- Abdellah Taia

It's the remix, yo.

( Fresh for April )

I don't like this game anymore. Make it stop.

The worst part is that I actually really enjoy it.

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Apuleius. The Golden Ass. Translated by Jack Lindsay. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1932.
Betz, Hans Dieter, ed. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation: Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Celsus. On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians. Translated by R. Joseph Hoffman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Gager, John G. ed. Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Morgan, Michael A. trans. Sepher Ha-Razim: The Book of the Mysteries. California: Scholars Press, 1983.
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I watched nearly a half an hour of maimed, screaming Palestinian children.

I also found out that my legal name is actually Patrick William Fisher Schwarz.

One pink tie, clip on
Four steel washers
Three pages of adolescent erotic poetry, surprisingly tasteful if neurotic
One old cellphone battery
One ounce bottle of "100% Pure Australian Tea Tree Oil"
Eight safety pins of various sizes
One cloth "Max Levine Ensemble" patch
One Paula Cole CD, unopened
Two zines about sexual assault
COOL SOCKS!

Halcyons shall cease to prey on fish,
Poisonous leaves become our food,
Be you sailors without remorse
For your lips are stained in blood.

Of this I know nothing.

Of this, nothing may be said.