April 2012
17 posts
“NOT, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;
Not untwist—slack...”
– 40. (Carrion Comfort). Hopkins, Gerard Manley. 1918. Poems
“If that which has been said of her so far
were all contained within a single...”
– Dante, Paradiso Canto 30
(via @mattfrost)
“…the whole weird premise of Savage’s claim is that eros is so...”
– MarriageDebate.com: A FEW COMMENTS ON THAT NYT MAGAZINE COVER STORY: Eve
“Our own epoch is the epoch of nothing positive, only of transition. Since we...”
– The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction - Frank Kermode
“This is the modern apotheosis of Joachism: the belief that one’s own age...”
– The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (with a New Epilogue) - Frank Kermode
“ASTRONAUT’S VOICE (o.s.)
But according to Dr. Hasslein theory of time...”
– Planet of the Apes - Shooting Script
True thing. My wife’s great grandmother (Celiney Yasbeck) was on the Titanic with her new husband. He was bringing his new bride back from Lebanon to Wilkes-Barre, PA, where he had a shoe shop.
He went down with the ship. She lived.
Instead of going to Wilkes-Barre, Celiney went to Norfolk, VA, where there was a Lebanese community. In Norfolk, she met and married my wife’s...
“Q: What is the difference between alternative comedy and regular comedy?
A:...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: FAQ: Alt Comedy.
“There are two kinds of dissertations.
Good ones.
And finished ones.”
“The more transcendental is your patriotism, the more practical are your...”
– G.K.C, Orthodoxy
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/130/pg130.html
“Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing—say Pimlico. If we think...”
– Chesterton, Orthodoxy
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/130/pg130.html
“Macbeth, more than any other of Shakespeare’s plays, is a play of crisis,...”
– The sense of an ending: studies in the theory of fiction : with a new epilogue - Frank Kermode
“Now one of the differences between doing philosophy and writing poetry is that...”
– The sense of an ending: studies in the theory of fiction : with a new epilogue - Frank Kermode
“Unless wheat drifts down
And is locked in the earth’s tomb
It...”
– Jesus Haiku (John 12:24)
“The Greeks, as Mr. Lampert observes, thought that even the gods could not change...”
– The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
“1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and...”
– Letters of Note: C. S. Lewis on Writing (via John Dickerson)
“Furthermore, while the bodies of zombies are ghastly now, they shall not be so...”
– Shameless Popery: How the Summa Theologica Might Address a Zombie Uprising 