September 2011
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“As Cervantes realized in the context of the newly born mass culture of the...”
– ‘Quixote,’ Colbert and the Reality of Fiction - NYTimes.com (via shaneguiter)
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“It is only in these centuries when we are afflicted with the doctrine of the...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“In real time, in history, whenever a man is confronted with several...”
– From ‘The False Problem of Ugolino’ in Nine Dantesque Essays by Jorge Luis Borges (via bookoflead)
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How Finland Became an Educational Leader →
petitchou:
How did Finland manage to elevate the role of teacher in the eyes of the population to something that is not just an honorable profession, but a revered profession, whereas in the United States, teachers are so regularly denigrated?
They really think about teachers as scientists and the classrooms are their laboratories. So, as I mentioned — every teacher has to have a masters...
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“Something about continual movement carries a concurrent urge for...”
– The Atlantic Monthly’s Eric Jaffe on why Americans love chain stores despite their self-professed obsession with individuality.
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“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only...”
– Haruki Murakami (via thelittlephilosopher)
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the continuing adventures of t. s. eliot →
ragbag:
many people know that t.s. eliot was a highly successful banker. but did you also know that he wrote poetry?
one day, i. a. richards had a run-in with one of eliot’s bosses at lloyd’s bank and learned the following about his banking prospects:
Bank Official: Tell me, if you will—you won’t…
Even poets can have dreams.
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“[Homer] was the first to indicate the forms that comedy was to assume, for his...”
– The Top 10 Books Lost to Time | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
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“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to...”
– — Albert Camus, writer, philosopher, Nobel laureate (1913-1960)
From Réflexions sur la peine capitale:
[“Mais qu’est-ce donc que l’exécution capitale, sinon le plus prémédité des meurtres auquel aucun forfait criminel, si calculé soit-il, ne peut être comparé ?
Pour...
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“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be forever a child.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero (via azspot)
Superfluidity is anything but a child, then, wandering Athens as he is right now, good man.
Here is the quotation in the original Latin:
“Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.”
— From ‘Orator Ad M....
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“In the clean brightness of magnesium
Flares, there were seven angels by a tree....”
– Anthony Hecht, from “A Friend Killed in the War” (via proustitute)
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Baby Tragos is a Wolverine
biteofpythias:
I couldn’t even post all game. I don’t have a voice left. I don’t have a fingernail left.
It’s great to be a michigan wolverine!!!!!!!!!!!!!’
Denard is the g.o.a.t.
By he way, it turns out that the Turkish doctor who delivered Baby Tragos on Sunday grew up in Ann Arbor, MI, where his father was doing a PhD, and where Mrs. Tragos and I met.
Could the game have played a factor...
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“[Oswald Spengler] made the sharp observation that in times of cultural fullness...”
– Adam Gopnik, “Decline, Fall, Rince, Repeat: Is America going down?”, New Yorker, September 12, 2011
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“Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, from The Beautiful and Damned, 1922 (via proustitute)
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“Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.”
– American journalist (1917 - 1986) for the Chicago Daily News and Chicago Sun-Times.
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“When the speaker of a sonnet gives up on personal utterance and resorts to...”
– Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Harvard University Press, 1997, p. 211
Vendler is writing about Sonnet 40, and particularly the following lines:
…But yet be blamed, if thou this self deceivest
By wilful taste of why thy self refusest. (6-7)
After a series of contorted... 