sarah c.
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reading about competition law and policy, labor, econ history, NBA, novels
From Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay”:
You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?
You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM
From Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay”:
You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?
You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?
From James Schuyler’s “Trip”:
When I think
of that, that at
only fifty-one I,
Jim the Jerk, am
still alive and breathing
deeply, that I think
is a miracle.
When I think
of that, that at
only fifty-one I,
Jim the Jerk, am
still alive and breathing
deeply, that I think
is a miracle.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 4:21 AM
From James Schuyler’s “Trip”:
When I think
of that, that at
only fifty-one I,
Jim the Jerk, am
still alive and breathing
deeply, that I think
is a miracle.
When I think
of that, that at
only fifty-one I,
Jim the Jerk, am
still alive and breathing
deeply, that I think
is a miracle.
O’Hara’s “Meditations in an Emergency.”
December 7, 2025 at 4:17 AM
O’Hara’s “Meditations in an Emergency.”
Auden’s elegy for Yeats.
December 7, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Auden’s elegy for Yeats.
From Adrienne Rich's "Notes toward a Politics of Location."
June 26, 2024 at 5:50 PM
From Adrienne Rich's "Notes toward a Politics of Location."
If you are thinking about Anne Boyer after yesterday, here's her excellent poem on refusal. www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-book...
November 17, 2023 at 4:08 PM
If you are thinking about Anne Boyer after yesterday, here's her excellent poem on refusal. www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-book...
Reposted by sarah c.
Wildest thing about the American economy I've learned after two years at the Federal Reserve: Almost 1% of US GDP is residential realtor commissions!
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1b2IC
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1b2IC
November 6, 2023 at 1:04 PM
Wildest thing about the American economy I've learned after two years at the Federal Reserve: Almost 1% of US GDP is residential realtor commissions!
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1b2IC
fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1b2IC
from the Peter Linebaugh introduction to the second edition of Albion's Fatal Tree
October 19, 2023 at 5:41 PM
from the Peter Linebaugh introduction to the second edition of Albion's Fatal Tree