Today’s One-Liner (#75)
I only quote others to make myself more explicit. –Michel de Montaigne, Essays, On the education of children, translated by J.M. Cohen
Month: November 2024
Saving One’s Own Skin in the Soviet Union
But it scarcely matters who actually signed the sentence–in those years everybody readily signed whatever was put before them. This was not only because they feared they would otherwise at once be dispatched to the…
Today’s One-Liner (#74)
Think, when you look at people, at their recent birth, their childhood, or their imminent death—and you will love them: such frail creatures. –Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky), A Voice from the Chorus
The Demise of Kindness
There were once many kind people, and even unkind ones pretended to be good because that was the thing to do. Such pretense was the source of the hypocrisy and dishonesty so much exposed in…
Today’s One-Liner (#73)
If you can’t get out of it, get into it. –Patricia Ryan Madson, Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up, 11.
Keenness and Intensity
On Monday 4 November, Katrina shared the following with our class, Saints, Mystics, and the Neighbor Next Door… Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in…
Genres
[Alexander Kluge’s two books] are sobering inventories of a catastrophe, cool, dry and therefore more gripping. A card index of all imaginable inhumanities. Kluge’s books consist of excerpts from diaries, telegrams, official reports, sermons of…