April 2011
0 posts
“It is the soul’s first habitat, the original self ambushed—cross-sectioned—in...”
– The Mother of Possibility - Lapham’s Quarterly
Is a dirty mind a sharper mind? →
“It’s as if committing to his own story would have been too obvious, and...”
– David Foster Wallace’s Posthumous Novel ‘The Pale King’ - TIME
March 2011
15 posts
“In my book I mention soldiers in Iraq who can sense if there is a land mine on a...”
– CultureLab: ‘We are not primarily rational creatures’
“And by the time the Barnes completes its move, all will have been remade into...”
– Eccentricity Gives Way to Uniformity in Museums - NYTimes.com
“Making art and appreciating art seems to be universal in the human species.”
– The Smart Set: This Is Your Brain on Art - March 16, 2011
“The culture wars are back,” said Storr, speaking to 100 people. The critics are...”
– The artistic side of the Culture Wars needs broader coalitions
“We care more about the parts and less about the entire. We are into snippets and...”
– We Are Just Not Digging The Whole Anymore : NPR
“History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos”
– Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data | Magazine
“Before the unfolding devastation in Japan, it was the roiling conflicts in north...”
– Don’t escape world crises: Engage them (through film) - The Denver Post
“BS: We live in a state of fear. Some dear old duck had a beastly picture, of...”
– The conversation: Should councils sell off art to raise money? | Comment is free | The Guardian
February 2011
112 posts
“Love is someone seeing the beauty in you and wanting to bask in it every day all...”
– The Definition of Love « Thought Catalog
“Middlemarch” isn’t most people’s idea of a self-help book, but I’ve learned more...”
– The Book Bench: Gems from George Eliot : The New Yorker
“Elias Aboujaoude, a Silicon Valley psychiatrist, finds this alarming. In...”
– ‘Virtually You’ and ‘Reality Is Broken’
“Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You...”
– You Should Date An Illiterate Girl
Your text's essence HERE →
"Literature should not disappear up its own... →
15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will
Van Gogh's Brown Period
“A type of bright yellow pigment used by Vincent van Gogh in some of his most famous paintings turns brown in the presence of sunlight, because of a previously unknown chemical reaction, a study has found. Powerful X-ray images of chrome yellow, a toxic industrial pigment used by many artists at the end of the 19th century, revealed that the chromium atoms at the heart of the pigment’s...
“Or maybe it’s that we’re not quite as equal as we like to think we are. My...”
– A Literary Glass Ceiling?
Would the Bard Have Survived the Web?
“Certainly there’s a place for free creative work online, but that cannot be the end of it. A rich culture demands contributions from authors and artists who devote thousands of hours to a work and a lifetime to their craft. Since the Enlightenment, Western societies have been lulled into a belief that progress is inevitable. It never has been. It’s the result of abiding by rules that were...
“On a neurochemical level, people in long-term relationships are just like those...”
– How Love Lasts : Discovery News
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“In a good kiss, our pupils dilate, which is one of the reasons we close our...”
– The Book Bench: Ask an Academic, Valentine’s Edition: The Kiss : The New Yorker
“‘The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love...”
– Have we lost the art of writing love letters?
“You wouldn’t use this to study or to help your memory,” Snyder said....”
– ‘Thinking Cap’ Designed to Promote Creativity : Discovery News
“Was Landesman really advocating the shutdown of temples of art, suggesting that...”
– How much art is too much?
“Before they were famous, many of the biggest pop stars in the world believed...”
– God at the Grammys: The Chosen Ones
“With books, the anticipation is different. In fact, with books, it is sometimes...”
– Well worth not reading - The Boston Globe
