April 2012
4 posts
Forever Alone...
“In 1949, the Yale anthropologist George Peter Murdock published a survey of some 250 ‘representative cultures’ from different eras and diverse parts of the world. He reported, ‘The nuclear family is a universal human social grouping. Either as the sole prevailing form of the family or as the basic unit from which more complex familial forms are compounded, it exists as a...
Creative work
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work...
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“Words differently arranged have different meanings, and meanings differently...”
– Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
March 2012
4 posts
“Southern Germany in 1417 was prosperous. The catastrophic Thirty Years’...”
– Author: Stephen Greenblatt Title: The Swerve Publisher: Norton Date: Copyright 2011 by Stephen Greenblatt Pages: 14-16
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“On any given day, up to four hundred billion individual birds may be found...”
– Author: Thor Hanson Title: Feathers Publisher: Basic Date: Copyright 2011 by Thor Hanson Pages: 4-8
February 2012
2 posts
2 tags
“To read fast is as bad as to eat in a hurry.”
– Vilhelm Ekelund, poet (1880-1949)
January 2012
6 posts
1 tag
““Solomon Shereshevsky could recite entire speeches, word for word, after...”
– Ingrid Wickelgren, “Trying to Forget,” from Scientific American Mind
““Truth comes from the observation of nature. The Japanese have tried to...”
– Leonard Koren, Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
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“Words are things; and a small drop of ink
Falling like dew upon a thought,...”
– Lord Byron, (1788-1824)
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“A poet should be of the
old-fashioned meaningless brand:
obscure, esoteric,...”
– Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
October 2011
3 posts
“Of all the mysteries of life, nothing was more mysterious than the return of...”
– Thomas McGuane
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“To read is to translate, for no two persons’ experiences are the same. A...”
– W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973)
“Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.”
– Richard Ben Sapir, novelist (1936-1987)
September 2011
7 posts
6 tags
“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to...”
– Albert Camus, writer, philosopher, Nobel laureate (1913-1960) 