February 2012
1 post
January 2012
3 posts
“All these mass manufactured fates are haunted by a thousand dreams of escape”
– Simone de Beauvoir, America day by day
Washington Post →
“… while Pittsburgh just subs in as other cities in movies.” Is Pittsburgh cool? At least it’s on THE list. Which I suppose is simply a list. But hopefully a good list since Iceland is number 1 on it.
December 2011
4 posts
November 2011
15 posts
“Personality is much more than autobiographical detail, it’s our way of...”
– Zadie Smith, in her essay, “Fail better” (She’s responding to T.S. Eliot’s essay, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”)
October 2011
8 posts
September 2011
1 post
“Thinking of Melville, thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel...”
– Nelson Algren, 1950
August 2011
4 posts
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
April 2011
4 posts
March 2011
8 posts
“The only interesting answers are those that destroy the question”
– Susan Sontag
vs.
“I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he...”
– Mark Twain, 1869
(one day I’ll go)
“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and...”
– “First Fig” from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920)
by Edna S. Vincent Millay