As in: "He jumped the fence to go larking about with his pals." Or, derogatorily, "She's pretty serious about her bocce ball lark." Or, when expressing something easy to accomplish, "That semiotics exam was a lark." It can also be used as an adjective, as in, "Mitch was a larky dog, always on the look out for some mischief."


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22, lilting, lovely, and somewhat lost recent liberal arts graduate. My voice reminds people of Winona Ryder and Ira Glass. I am the nexus between Lindsay Weir and Elaine Benes. I am Jewish, obviously, but that doesn’t mean you have to be. I am recently heartbroken. I find comfort in my…

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Mr. Harris Tweed

We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
Bukowski
Calvin&#160;!!!

Calvin !!!

Days of Yore interview with WELLS TOWER

What are your work habits like?

I try to put in a solid four to six hours a day. I think much beyond that, the pleasure goes out of it. Particularly writing fiction, which is really the process of willing yourself into a tenuous alpha-state where suddenly the world that you are making up seems believable and interesting. I think that kind of spell-craft can only hold for a limited period of time before you start to fake it.

The notion of going into a room by yourself and trying to make yourself believe in made up stuff with sufficient fervor that you think it will be worth people’s time reading it, is a very, very weird thing to do.

Kalifornienträumen

On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it to be a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles.
    —from “On Thinking about Hell,” Bertolt Brecht

&#8220;A Bigger Splash&#8221;, David Hockney About his LA: &#8220;There’s a quite sophisticated city out there, yet you can live privately in it. And there’s that marvelous light.&#8221;

“A Bigger Splash”, David Hockney

About his LA: “There’s a quite sophisticated city out there, yet you can live privately in it. And there’s that marvelous light.”

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