There’s nothing else I wanna try
how the hell do you do this? change the colors shapes and size I’m clueless not one thing I recognize so foolish every now’s a big surprise help me to get through this stay with me until I die there’s...
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By John Banville ft The story of the Book of Kells, of the mystery surrounding its provenance and the anonymity of the master scribes and artists who executed it, is a splendid romance. Few emblems of...
View ArticleWe will fall down and worship him as a sweet and holy and wonderful being
When any of these pantomimic gentlemen, who are so clever that they can imitate anything, comes to us, and makes a proposal to exhibit himself and his poetry, we will fall down and worship him as a...
View ArticleLuminous
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. – Yoda Filed under: Quotes Tagged: Quotes
View ArticleThe Making of a Philosophy Professor
By John Kaag chronicle “The unexamined life is not worth living.” What Socrates failed to tell us is that the examined one isn’t a whole lot better. So he wasn’t the wisest of all men. Or if he was, he...
View ArticleThe Colonel’s standing in the sun with his stupid face the glasses and the gun
I know what happens I read the book I believe I just got the goodbye look – Donald Fagen Filed under: Quotes Tagged: Quotes
View ArticleThe annoyance of influence
I do not agree with Plato, but if anything could make me do so, it would be Aristotle’s arguments against him. – Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy Filed under: Quotes Tagged: Quotes
View ArticleA Supermarket in California
What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for...
View ArticleHologram
It is not every day that we are needed. – Samuel Beckett Filed under: Quotes Tagged: Quotes
View ArticleNothing is more tiresome than being told what to admire
As dear old Kilvert notes, nothing is more tiresome than being told what to admire, and having things pointed at with a stick. – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas Filed under: Quotes Tagged: Quotes
View ArticleA piece of time
Just by existing, it demanded that you believed in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you. A...
View ArticleNew York’s not my home
No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky. – E. B. White Filed under: Music, Quotes, Video Tagged: Music, Quotes, Video
View ArticleWorthy of only the most refined of refrigerator doors
Deep inside, we never quite forget the needs with which we were born: to be accepted as we are, without regard to our deeds; to be loved through the medium of our body; to be enclosed in another’s...
View ArticleIn the collied night
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, “Behold!” The jaws of darkness do...
View ArticleSince shepherds are the same everywhere
Mind you, she had something to say on the subject. Of the thousands of books she had read, among them books on the history of Mexico, the history of Spain, the history of Columbia, the history of...
View ArticleSuicide Watch
By Freya Johnston the-tls On September 9, 1756, Edward Moore’s journal The World published an eight-page letter from a gentleman in distress. Having abandoned legal, military, and authorial careers,...
View ArticleMexico’s masked vigilantes defy drug gangs — and the law
By Nicholas Casey wsj AYUTLA, Mexico—Masked men, rifles slung over their shoulders, stand guard on a lonely rural road, checking IDs and questioning travelers. They wear no uniforms, flash no badges,...
View ArticleIs There A Place For The Mind In Physics? Part I
By Adam Frank npr So I want you to do something for me. I want you to think of a blue monkey. Are you ready? OK, go! Visualize it in your head. Any kind of monkey will do (as long as it’s blue). Take a...
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