To be faire, I think we're all idiots!
The question of immortality has frequently engaged him, and on more than one occasion he has asked the priest if there is such a thing, whether one would really recognize oneself again; which for him must be a particularly pressing matter seeing that he has no self. from Notes on Jackson and His Dead by Hugh Fulham-McQuillan Sunday…
On our behalf they dreaded the closeness of adolescent friendship, the predatory behaviour of strangers on trains, the lure of the wrong kind of girl. How far their anxieties outran our experience. from The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired…
The only way to get rid of your burdens is to live your life in such a way that you fulfill your destiny. from A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy. Sentence attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson (source not noted) Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David…
京にても (kyou nitemo)京なつかしや (kyou natsukashi ya)時鳥 (hototogisu) from A Haiku by Matsuo Bashô Translation from Robert HassEven in Kyōto—hearing the cuckoo’s cry—I long for Kyōto Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
There was a wonderful smell in the air of rendered fat and spice and juicy meat, and when the waitress returned with the pitcher of glowing amber beer, which seemed blessedly lit from within, Omar felt curiously happy. It was pleasantly warm in the drowsy grove of trees, the carnivorous men around him all seemed…
I love to see the brains behind the comedy. This is a surprisingly well balanced panel of smart men discussing the business of comedy. Enjoy!
But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive. from What if? Serious scientific answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary….
One of her personalities had decided she’d had enough, and had starved one of the others to death. Schizophrenic rivalry. from Grammar Architect by Chris Eaton Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.