...The Stepsister Novels of Willa Cather and F Scott Fitzgerald
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Matching word and image ...
... The Ariel Poems (Numbers 1-8) | The Thought Fox. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Aerial surveillance ...
... Pigeon photography � The Dabbler.
This seems like something the Obama Administration might want to look into.
This seems like something the Obama Administration might want to look into.
Birthday anniversary …
… Don Colacho’s Aphorisms: A Short Life of Nicolás Gómez Dávila. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
I should have chosen one of his aphorism for this morning's "thought for today." So here is one now, one that seems especially pertinent given recent news:
I should have chosen one of his aphorism for this morning's "thought for today." So here is one now, one that seems especially pertinent given recent news:
Dictatorship is the technification of politics.
More pseudoscientific BS …
… CDC: 1 In 5 US Children May Have Mental Disorder — CBS Atlanta.
God forbid that children behave like children. A good many of my classmates — and maybe even your humble writer — might have been so diagnosed had this nonsense been around when we were in school.
This from the same sort of nitwits that run the IRS.
This from the same sort of nitwits that run the IRS.
Singular painter of modern life …
… Peter Altenberg: A Flaneur For All Seasons : The New Yorker.
Glad to see signs that Altenberg is staring to get his due.
Glad to see signs that Altenberg is staring to get his due.
Much in what he says …
… along with a lot of crap: Reviewed: Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet by Jesse Norman. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
How can anyone imagine that debates waged over 70 years ago could resolve the dilemmas that an utterly different world confronts today?
The same way they might think a book about someone born in 1729 might have some bearing on today's problems. The economic ethos Gray dismisses is grounded in the freedom individuals ought to have to go about their business. This does not mean giving business carte blanche. Business is subject to the same laws the rest of us are.
A thought for today ....
There was a Door to which I found no Key:
There was a Veil through which I could not see:
Some little Talk awhile of Me and Thee
There seemed -- and then no more of Thee and Me.
— Omar Khayyam, born on this date in 1048
Friday, May 17, 2013
It oughta be on Broadway …
… 'Coriolanus': Nothing Plebeian About Him | Shakespeare Theatre Company | By Terry Teachout - WSJ.com. (Hat tip, Dave Lull, who also sends along this.)
Reminiscing …
… Elmore Leonard, Man of the Western - From the Current - The Criterion Collection. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Does it matter?
… Is Humbert Humbert Jewish? by Mark Ford | The New York Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
The comeback trail …
… Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House And Museum Should Reopen In October. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
A classic anthology …
… Anecdotal Evidence: `What Lewd, Naked and Revolting Shape is This?'
The Pocket Book of Modern Verse was the Oscar Williams anthology that I read until it fell apart. A bit of Googling reveals that Williams and his wife, Gene Derwood, are almost forgotten.
The Pocket Book of Modern Verse was the Oscar Williams anthology that I read until it fell apart. A bit of Googling reveals that Williams and his wife, Gene Derwood, are almost forgotten.
Does mind matter? Or does matter mind?
… Nagel’s Untimely Idea | Commonweal magazine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
A thought for today ...
Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
— Meister Eckhart
Thursday, May 16, 2013
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