Goat curry and a female librarian, that’s what I’m in the mood for.

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Goat curry and a female librarian, that’s what I’m in the mood for.

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Goats

I think both of those things should be running at full blast, not less of both so it becomes an easier thing. I think it should be twice as dense. That’s just what interests me.
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Blast Dense Easier Interested Thing
I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.
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Appreciation
I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars. A rabbi is just a scholar.
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Jewish Temple
I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
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Watches
A picture story just doesn’t run like a film. It doesn’t have 24 frames per second. It doesn’t deal with this illusion of movement. It’s more like if you did an illuminated novel.
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Running Stories
A picture story just doesn’t run like a film. It doesn’t have 24 frames per second. It doesn’t deal with this illusion of movement.

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A picture story just doesn’t run like a film. It doesn’t have 24 frames per second. It doesn’t deal with this illusion of movement.
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Running Stories
I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn’t been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.
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Apartment Building Feels
Really interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don’t fall asleep.
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Levels
Goat curry and a female librarian, that’s what I’m in the mood for.

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Goat curry and a female librarian, that’s what I’m in the mood for.
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Goats
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You’d have to be oblivious not to.
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Building Oblivious
How can you think that that will evoke the past? It doesn’t even have to evoke anything, but anyway, it’s how we’re living. It’s this moment where nobody has to immediately think too much about how things are being documented. It’s a great time.

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How can you think that that will evoke the past? It doesn’t even have to evoke anything, but anyway, it’s how we’re living. It’s this moment where nobody has to immediately think too much about how things are being documented. It’s a great time.
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Anything Anyway Evoke Nobody
To sell papers, they put color comics in. It’s worked, up until now. Now these papers can’t afford it. They always had minuscule ad budgets, and now the things which people probably read these papers for are gone.
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Comics Minuscule Probably Worked
You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what’s going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.
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Knowing Needs
I’m very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

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I’m very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.
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Western
As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn’t know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
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Kids
The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.
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Rooms

Goat curry and a female librarian, that’s what I’m in the mood for.

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