March 2012
23 posts
UVA's historical database of mind metaphors →
garbandier:
Via bibliOddysey
I did a search for James Joyce and was not disappointed.
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"Do You Reverse?" →
British Pathé’s 1932 video of young Flannery O’Connor with her chicken that walks backwards. “Everything since has been anticlimax,” she later said.
[via Benjamin]
“It has always interested me to know what happens after the great moments in...”
– Rebecca West (via garbandier)
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“A month or two before my toe accident, a few of us rolled down the Economy...”
– David Owen, from his terrific essay “Scars“
Science on the Rampage →
A strong article by Freeman Dyson about the limits of knowing within science.
[via Alan]
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“[Y]ou can expect that somebody who’s willing to read and read *hard* a...”
– David Foster Wallace on readers of Infinite Jest
“What I don’t hear people talking about are the intangible, non-development...”
– My friend James, who works in central Africa distributing aid for a giant American non-profit, in an email to me discussing Teju Cole’s brilliant article ”The White Savior Industrial Complex.”
My friend Jason in Wired →
“I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to...”
– The White Savior Industrial Complex - Teju Cole - International
“But when he has managed to break free from ecclesiastical firefighting, Dr...”
– Rowan Williams: farewell to a man of intellect, integrity and spirituality | Observer editorial | Comment is free | The Observer (via ayjay)
“The only people you have to think twice about lying to are yourself and God; not...”
– Bob Dylan (via evanuel3)
“In 2009 the United States graduated 89,140 students in the visual and performing...”
– Tuning In to Dropping Out - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via ayjay)
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"tea," Magnús Sigurðsson
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
do not underestimate
the significance of letters
and poems
unsent letters
unpublished poems
scribbled across
fragrant wrappers of
chamomile tea
[translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith in Aldus]
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“Our period is not so unlike the age of Augustine: the planned society, caesarism...”
– Auden’s review of Charles Norris Cochrane’s Christianity and Classical Culture, first printed in The New Republic in 1944. (via ayjay)
“There are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other...”
– Give it five minutes - (37signals)
