July 2010
22 posts
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“Mennonite Men (& the Women who...
“‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have felt a little guilty for loving The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, as well as its two sequels. But, on the other hand, if I like it, that makes it good—for me. Reading doesn’t always have to be thought-provoking or educational. Reading can be a private...
Once I Pass’d through a Populous City
by Walt Whitman
Once I pass’d through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city I remember only a woman I casually met there who detain’d me for love of me, Day by day and night by night we were together—all else has long been...
the finger
by Charles Bukowski
the drivers of automobiles have very little recourse or originality. when upset with another driver they often give him the FINGER. I have seen two adult men florid of face driving along giving each other the FINGER. well, we all know what this means, it’s no secret. still, this gesture is so overused it has lost most of its impact. some of the men who...
“Between 1900 and 1920, the first medicoactuarial standards of weight and height...”
– Jacqueline Urla and Alan C. Swedlund in Measuring Up to Barbie: Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture
“Aside from love, good food is the cornerstone of a happy household…”
– (Opening lines of a 1957 cookbook called The Well Fed Bridegroom)
“Now for the afternoon: the dramatic altercation and conflict between the visible...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Insane Human Afternoons read (a bit) more here.
(via hannahjenkins)
“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides; Middlesex
Questions
by Stephen Dunn
If on a summer afternoon a man should find himself in love with only one woman in a sea of women, all the others mere half-naked swimmers and floaters, and if that one woman therefore is clad in radiance while the mere others are burdened by their bikinis, then what does he do with a world suddenly so small, the once unbiased sun shining solely on her? And if that...
“If you do not read good books, you will read bad ones.”
– C.S. Lewis
