May 2009
18 posts
“I do really love to write and would absolutly love to become a professional...”
– Me, 1990s.
The sign of childishness is to say: “Me wants, me-me”; the sign of youth is to say: “I”—and “I”—and “I”; the sign of maturity and the introduction to the eternal is the will to understand that this “I” signifies nothing if it does not become the “thou” to whom eternity unceasingly speaks, and says: “Thou shalt, thou...
“The comical is a relation, the faulty relationship of contradiction, but free from pun. Holophernes is said to be seven and one-fourth yards tall. The contradiction lies essentially in the fraction. The seven yards are fantastic, but the fantastic is not in the habit of speaking about quarter fractions; the quarter of a yard as a measure is reminiscent of reality. Whoever laughs at the...
“I can remember one occasion, taking a shower with my wife while high, in which I...”
– Carl Sagan
“When a cockerel comes upon some food he knows the female likes, he often...”
– Carl Sagan, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-24) →
Angelo Badalamenti (22)
Guns N’ Roses (13)
Jarvis Cocker (12)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (12)
Tori Amos (11)
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“Any really worthwhile [literary] criticism will share the expressive qualities of literature itself. It will be personal, because art is personal. It will not be definitive; it will not be universally valid. It will be a product of its times, though it will see beyond those times. It will not satisfy the dean’s desire for accumulable knowledge, the parent’s desire for a...
Life's little victories @ Twitter dot com
reblog of spiegelman:
Won at Scrabble
Passed the bar
Found a quarter
Lost five pounds
Got his autograph
Got her number
Made some cookies
Saw a rainbow
