August 2012
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Edward Tufte continues his sculptural process with... →
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“On ne règne sur les âmes que par le calme”
– French, from, or at least via, Winston Churchill.
One reigns hearts through calm.
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“Too much interpretation is certainly worse than too little, and where feeling...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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Bernard James, Dallas Maverick by way of Air Force →
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Happiness
One [study], which measured the happiness of 900 women in Texas, concluded that the activities that made them happy were sex, socializing, relaxing, praying/meditating and eating—in that order. Except for the last one, all activities were presumably free.
from FB alternet
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The Cloud in Trousers
If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!
p61.
Vladimir Mayakovsky. The Cloud in Trousers (1915)
Patricia Blake (ed.) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975).
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Just spent the last hour
making a playlist w/ Dennis of all the Disney songs we’re going to sing together on a karaoke night of the distant, possibly impossible future.
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The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often...
Small, crafty, cowering, timorous little beast, O, what a panic is in your little breast! You need not start away so hasty With argumentative chatter! I would be loath to run and chase you, With murdering plough-staff.
I’m truly sorry man’s dominion Has broken Nature’s social union, And justifies that ill opinion Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor, earth born companion And...
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