August 2010
1 post
June 2010
5 posts
“He wafts his hat and the lunar dome of his skull passes palely under the lamps...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
“‘Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging;
You are not those who...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Dry Salvages
“I have to believe that something deeper is involved, and that behind most dreams...”
– Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter, in his commencement address this year at Harvard University.
“Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime...”
– David Foster Wallace - “Federer as Religious Experience”
May 2010
12 posts
“That something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.”
– Rilke
This is Water →
If there were an anthology of the best commencement addresses of all time, this would most definitely be in it. David Foster Wallace at Kenyon, 2005.
Ed & The Red Reds →
Last week I was dubbed an “aggregator” by my brother Ed. Well, in honor of him, I’d like to aggregate the shit out of his music, which I heard tonight at rontoms. It was nice to have a concert personally tailored to my every whim/desire, and it’s even nicer to have such a talented and wonderful older brother.
“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
“For ultimately, and precisely in the deepest and most important matters, we are...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
g37l0w:
Davey just sent me this track he made....
“The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it; and the more a man...”
– G.K. Chesterton
April 2010
12 posts
“But of course, you are ready for everything in the world except what will be...”
– Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
March 2010
3 posts
“Pray for these thoughts, I beseech you, that they may at last find stability. So...”
– Petrarch, Accent of Mt. Ventoux
February 2010
12 posts
“Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole...”
– Keats, Ode to a Nightingale
“Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole...”
– Ken Kesey, Sometimes A Great Notion
“There is no end, but addition; the trailing
Consequence of further days and...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets
“Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was...”
– Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
January 2010
8 posts
“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
– T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“How is it possible to defeat not the authors but the functions of the author,...”
– Italo Calvino, if on a winter’s night a traveler
“There is, it seems to us,
At best, only a limited value
In the knowledge...”
– T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets