December 2009
25 posts
“There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is...”
– Thoreau/economy
“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and...”
– Thoreau/economy
“He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his
soul so...”
– James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”
Time is relative.
I believe that time moves slower for women than it does for men. And I wonder, do you agree, and if so, why?
“Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your...”
– Khaled Hosseini
“SQUARE 3
Her
Mise en scene: the shower, with a brush. I’m not wearing...”
– Semiotic Love by BP Whalen
“Human lives are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what...”
– English poet Thomas Gray
Walt Whitman's "Song of the Open Road."
A glimpse at verse 11: These are the days that must happen to you: You shall not heap up what is call’d riches, You shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve, You but arrive at the city to which you were destin’d—you hardly settle yourself to satisfaction, before you are call’d by an irresistible call to depart, You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and mockings of...
“I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I?…Am I like that? [How do...”
– Leopold Bloom in James Joyce’s Ulysses
“A writer must maintain a continual struggle against the objective: that is his...”
– Terrence Doody
“The heart has it’s reason that the reason does not know.”
– Pascal
How to appreciate art?
A certain critic propounded the theory that the appreciation of a work of art depended upon the capacity of the spectator to project his or her personality into the object of contemplation. One had to “feel oneself in to it.”
Door Wide Open
From Wikipedia… set to inspire Mr. Koz’s one half of our three part sci-fi love story.
Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair In Letters, 1957-1958 is a collection of letters that were written in 1957-1958 between Joyce Johnson and Jack Kerouac.
The letters depict the rather detached and absurd romance of the two writers, and they are supplemented greatly by Johnson’s own narration...
“What’s beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and...”
– Paul Auster
“The question is always arising: What is the real poem? Is it the poem we now...”
– Lionel Trilling, 1942
“History, the articulated past-all kinds, even our personal histories-is forever...”
– Robert Penn Warren, “The Use of the Past”
“There are people who do embrace your overflowing teacup of warmth, brilliance,...”
– Rachel Lennon
As You Like It, Act III. Scene II.
Jaq. I thank you for your company; but, good faith, I had as lief have been myself alone.
Orl. And so had I; but yet, for fashion’ sake, I thank you too for your society.
Jaq. God be wi’ you: let’s meet as little as we can.
Orl. I do desire we may be better strangers.
Jaq. I pray you, mar no more trees with writing love-songs in their barks.
Orl. I pray you mar no more of my verses with...
Most Phallic Building contest
After watching and loving a whole season of Bored To Death, I did a little wiki research on Mr. Jonathan Ames.
Mr. Jonathan Ames is responsible for the Most Phallic Building contest. In an article he wrote for Slate magazine, he claimed that the Williamsburg Bank Building in Brooklyn, New York, was the most phallic building in the world.
The World’s Most Phallic Building contest was a...