November 2010
5 posts
“The good mall has everything,” 44-year-old Paul Dietrich said of...”
– Family Takes Rare Trip To The Good Mall | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Family Takes Rare Trip To The Good Mall | The... →
Ha!
July 2010
1 post
October 2009
37 posts
“The “heroic ideal” and the “tragic sense”: these phrases...”
– Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education by Martha Nussbaum. Harvard University Press, 328 pp., $26.00 and Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom by Vict - GeorgeScialabba.Net
“Take this guinea and with it burn the college to the ground. Set fire to the old...”
– Virginia Woolf
“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.”
– Cioran (via billyjane)
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the...”
– James Baldwin
“I do not know what is right and what is wrong; what is allowed and what is not;...”
– E.M. Cioran
“Work which receives significant institutional or commercial support is likely to...”
– George Scialabba
i12bent:
Nico: Little Sister (by Cale/Reed -...
“My father showed me his library, which was very large, and told me to read...”
– Borges via Commonplace Book
Sibylle Baier, Tonight
a sad café
mebbee:
First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus for all the stored-up love which has lain quiet within the lover for a long time hitherto....
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
“[Bakunin was] rather lazy and mild despite his impulses toward universal...”
– Edmund Wilson
RadioOpenSource-George_Scialabba.mp3 (audio/mpeg... →
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“But remember, also, young man: you are not the first person who has ever been...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Žižek: First as Tragedy, Then as Farce | The... →
Trilling on Huckleberry Finn 1948 →
Perhaps the best clue to the greatness of Huckleberry Finn has been given to us by a writer who is as different from Mark Twain as it is possible for one Missourian to be from another. T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Dry Salvages,” the third of his Four Quartets, begins with a meditation on the Mississippi, which Mr. Eliot knew in his St. Louis boyhood:
I do not know much...
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (and Christ) | First Things →
thegroundofmybeseeching:
Why Tolstoy is a better writer.
“The use of blackmail in matters of the heart is a relatively recent development...”
– The Art of Blackmail - NYTimes.com
The Odyssey Years - New York Times →
“Like most writers, I seem to be smarter in print than in person. In fact, I am...”
– Essay - Why Good Writers Can Be Bad Conversationalists - NYTimes.com
Watchhttp://www.lacan.com/blog/
Slavoj Zizek on capitalism, democracy
September 2009
31 posts
“The Suburbs-Where those who do not want to be seen hang out with the blind.”
– Speedology… Cruise with… … … …Speed Levitch…
“Identity-A profound opportunity”
– Speedology… Cruise with… … … …Speed Levitch…
“People riot the same way they orgasm. This is why the riots of men end as fast...”
– Speedology… Cruise with… … … …Speed Levitch…
“All education can ever do is to provide the experience, and stimulate, guide,...”
– Randolph Bourne