Dec 02 2009
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Apr 28 2009
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Feb 12 2009
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“ A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
— Alexander Pope “Essay on Criticism”
Feb 11 2009
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“ The dust is settling on the ‘bipartisan’ stimulus bill and one thing is clear: It is anti-religious.
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“ …she had no real skills. Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty percent of the useful work of the world.
— Toni Morrison, “Song of Solomon”
Feb 10 2009
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“ …the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars …
— Jack Kerouac, “On the Road”
Feb 09 2009
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Senior portraits in Millenium Park (my brother)
Jan 24 2009
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“ The painter and the sculptor are the Catholics of art, the writer is the Protestant. The former have the sacramentals, the concrete intermediaries between themselves and creation — the paint, the brushes, the fruit, the bowl, the table, the model, the mountain, the handling and muscling of clay. The writer is the Protestant. He works alone in a room as bare as a Quaker meeting house with nothing between him and his art but a Scripto pencil, like God’s finger touching Adam. It is harder on the nerves.
— Walker Percy, “Lost in the Cosmos”
Jan 20 2009
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