December 2009
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“To the press alone, checkered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for...”
– James Madison
The Federalist Papers
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Thanks, tragos. And to this quotation I add the following by Auden:
“With all that can be said, justly, against journalists, there is one kind of journalist to whom civilization owes a very great debt, namely, the brave and honest reporter...
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“If once they [“our people”] become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I,...”
– Thomas Jefferson, letter from Paris, 1787 (via tragos)
The very kind of utterance I would want to hear from one of the primary voices creating a country I would want to live in.
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“Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is...”
– [Alan Bennett] (via solidair) (via batchiara) (via tragos)
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“Speaking as a botanist and a mad woman, she said, the most extraordinary word in...”
– V. Nabakov, from Ada, or Ardor (via petitchou) (via poetbabble)
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“Two of my favorite inscriptions:
Inscribed along the top of the façade of the...”
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“Great writers are the saints for the godless.”
– Anita Brookner (b. 1938), British novelist, art historian. Novelists in Interview (ed. by John Haffenden, 1985).
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“… the familiar double standard of philosophy since its debacle: upholding one...”
– Susan Sontag, “Thinking Against Oneself”: Reflections on Cioran. (via msodradek)
—Zing!
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Laurie Anderson — “On the Way to...
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“Art that is simply a thing is an oxymoron. Yet the development of this oxymoron...”
– Theodor W. Adorno: Aesthetic Theory (translated by by Robert Hullot-Kentor) (via fuckyeahphilosophy) (via enormousair)
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“The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a...”
– Theodore Zeldin (via nihilnoetia) (via enormousair)
Yes…and the same with reading and the same with classrooms.
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David Lynch on Watching a Film on an iPhone →
failbetter, thank you for this link!
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“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see,...”
– Arthur Miller (via nihilnoetia) (via enormousair)
No turning back.
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“The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the...”
– From Larkin’s “High Windows”:
…And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.
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A Stevens-Larkin mashup! Two great poems.
UPDATE: Alas, the...
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“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”
– James Thurber (via nihilnoetia) (via enormousair)
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“And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing —...”
– John Steinbeck (via nihilnoetia)
—John, I hate to say it, but just wait.
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tragos:
Louis Armstrong, Gut Bucket Blues
From...
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Ad Rant: Dockers ads claim "soft" khakis will make... →
failbetter:
What? Wait. What?
Granted, I just assume every ad campaign ever is sexist and terrible so I just ignore them all. And granted, I know comments on any given blog on the internet are bottom-of-the-barrel crazy people. And of course, I don’t like to make generalizations about what “men” or “women” do and the whole notion of gender roles makes me incredibly uncomfortable.
But...
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Leopold Bloom can't get a break | Charlottesville... →
failbetter:
Well, Virginia, I guess your prisoners can’t read Ulysses anymore. They can’t read Lady Chatterly’s Lover, either. Full list is here and it’s bizarre. For instance: U.S. News & World Report; Dec 15-22,08. Only that week in 2008? Is that what that means? What’s in that!? Also, no fewer than four books relating to naughty librarians.
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Timbuk 3 — “Life Is Hard”
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