#jane-in-bed

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A Challenge!

We're trying to find new ways to the word!  This is serving as some inspiration:

We'd love to see more!  Anything up any of your sleeves? 

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Freedom means nothing left; cab change receptacles are hearing aids in which one's fingers jam - when clips are coming in quite fast, it's like waking up and trying to orient the bed. Which side can the wall be on, which side is uptown, downtown, which town is it, anyway? In some of the best motels, near airports, along highways, they have Magic Fingers, a device which, for one quarter put into a metal box, shakes the bed for sixty seconds and sends you quietly to sleep. There are no fingers about it. It is more like sleeping on a train when the tracks are good. A sticker on the metal box says that you can have Magic Fingers in your own home. I don't know anyone who has.

Renata Adler, Speed Boat

cab change receptacles are hearing aids in which one's fingers jam ... this is very TheNewerYork.  (Like this sort of stuff.  Go get yours today!)

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TABLE OF INSTRUCTIONS In its own way, this book consists of many books, but two books above all. The first an be read in a normal fashion and it ends with Chapter 56, at the close of which are three garish little stars which stand for the words The End. Consequently, the reader may ignore what follows with a clean conscience. The second should be read by beginning with Chapter 73 and then following the sequence indicated at the end of each chapter. In case of confusion or forgetfulness, one need only consult the following list: 73-1-2-116-3-84-4-71-5-81-74-6-7-8-93-68-9-104-10-65-11-136-12-106-13-115-14-114-117-15-120-16-137-17-97-18-153-19-90-20-126-21-79-22-62-23-128-24-134-25-141-60-26-109-27-28-130-151-152-143-100-76-101-144-92-103-108-64-155-123-145-122-112-154-85-150-95-146-29-107-113-30-57-70-147-31-32-142-61-33-67-83-142-34-87-105-96-94-91-82-99-35-121-36-37-98-38-39-86-78-40-59-41-148-42-75-43-125-44-102-45-80-46-47-110-48-111-49-118-50-119-51-69-52-89-53-66-149-54-129-139-133-140-138-127-56-135-63-88-72-77-131-58-131- Each chapter has its number at the top of ever right-hand page to facilitate the search.

- Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar

We don't even know where to begin. 

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Self-curate or disappear

- Nik in Dana Spiotta's Stone Arabia 

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You've established a wonderful thing here with Hitler. you created it, you nurtured it, you made it your own. nobody on the faculty of any college or university in thus part of the country can so much as utter the word Hitler without a nod in your direction, literally or metaphorically. this is the center, the unquestioned source. He is now your Hitler, Gladney's Hitler. it must be deeply satisfying for you. the college is internationally known as a result of Hitler studies. it has an identity, a sense of achievement. You've involved an entire system around this figure, a structure with countless subcultures and interrelated fields of study, a history within history. I marvel at the effort. it was masterful, shrewd and stunningly preemptive. it's what I want to do with Elvis.

Don DeLillo, White Noise

We do too.

xo

Jane

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It was once suggested to me that as an antidote to crying, I put my head in a paper bag.

Joan Didion

(xox Jane) 

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Listen.  Write. Submit. Be read.  Get published. 

xox Jane

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Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!" Raise your voice - they won't hear you otherwise - "I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!" Maybe they haven't heard you, with all that racket; speak louder, yell: "I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!" Or if you prefer, don't say anythingl just hope they'll leave you alone.

-Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler

xox Jane