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New Blog Location
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Disposable Masterpieces
Posted in Uncategorized on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CBS provides television as Gillette supplies disposable razors— and, alas, the universities turn out degree-holders equally disposable; and the major publishers of New York City (most of them less profitable annexes of conglomerates peddling soap, beer, and paper towels) provide disposable masterpieces. Donald Hall
Cynical Toward Cynicism
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s healthy and often profitable to take a cynical view of cynicism itself, at its resolute determination to find sullied motives and conventional behavior. A.G. Harmon
Comedy Taken Seriously
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
But great comedy, the comedy of Shakespeare or Sterne, not only can be, but must be, taken seriously. There is nothing to which a man must give himself up with more faith and self-abandonment than to genuine laughter. G.K. Chesterton
A little nonsense…
Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. Roald Dahl
Fact as Personal Feeling – Sayers
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling. Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker
The Advantage of Age
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth. Dorothy Sayers
The Intimate and the General
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is the intimate, never the general, that is teacherly. Mary Oliver
Samurai Advice
Posted in Uncategorized on January 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Never have a favorite weapon. Miyamoto Musashi, quoted in Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit
Plastic Culture and Counterculture
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in fighting the plastic culture, and the church should have been fighting it too. . . . More than this, they were right in the fact that the plastic culture – modern man, the mechanistic worldview in university textbooks and in practice, the total [...]
