Popularity and growth are frequently corollaries of corruption rather than proof of its absence or irrelevance—which only raises anew the question of how the most committed fans might register their sense of that corruption.
Steroids, Baseball, America: Did Drugs Kill Sports? – The Point Magazine
Man, The Point seems like a fantastic magazine (see also). This is one of the better DFW appreciations I’ve read, looking past the form and into the function, his mission, if we may call it that. Special focus is given to E Unibus Pluram and Infinite Jest. It’s one of those articles that makes me want to read more. Great, great stuff.
Death is Not the End – David Foster Wallace: His Legacy and his Critics – The Point Magazine
Glances are the big guns of the virtuous coquette; everything can be conveyed in a look, and yet that look can always be denied, because it cannot be quoted word for word.
One of the best things I’ve read this summer. Great writing. Well worth the time. (via)
The essence of passionate love, what grants it the nobility that the others do not possess, is what Stendhal calls crystallization. Just as the naked branch of a tree will gather diamond-like crystals if it is dropped into a salt mine, a lover will gather perfections about the crooked timber of his beloved.
Love in the Age of the Pickup Artist: Stendhal Among the Seducers – The Point Magazine
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