About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
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What I’ve been reading
I know I’ll never be a Martin Weller, but I managed to get myself into a number of books at once. First was The Eternaut by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López. I ordered this for my library, or … Continue reading
“You want it one way”
Sometimes there’s a tension between the way it is and the way we want it to be. Marlo pointed that out to the security guard in The Wire, and Maria brought it up in The Water Knife. Sometimes people see … Continue reading