… Leading poetry critic Marjorie Perloff has died at 92: “Her passion was brilliant.”
Thursday, May 02, 2024
Take a look at these …
… Photographer Explores the Abstract Beauty of Iceland's Rivers. (Hat tip, Rus. Bowden.)
Something to think on …
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
— Novalis, born on this date in 1772
Very interesting …
… Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Wednesday, May 01, 2024
Something to think on…
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, born on this date in 1882
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Something to think on …
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
— Alice B.Toklas, born on this date in 1877
Monday, April 29, 2024
Something to think on …
To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No.
— Constantine P. Cavafy, born on this date in 1863
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Appalling …
… It Was Only a Matter of Time Before We Saw Something Like This at These Pro-Hamas Rallies.
Those of an age remember quite well who coined te phrase “final solution.’
A problem with stop signs and niceness …
… It’s Not “Midwest Nice” to Break the Rules. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
In case you wondered …
… Why College Degrees Are Losing Their Value.
I graduated from college in 1964, when fewer than 10 percent of the population had a bachelors degree. Today that number has increased to more that 50 percent. But many recent college graduates I have met fail to impress — such as the one who a few months ago interrupted a conversation I was having over a beer with an artist friend of mine to tell us that Hitler wasn’t a socialist. We weren’t talking about Hitler or socialism, but I turned to him and said, “Guess you don’t know German.” Then I told him that NAZI means Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei — National Socialist German Workers Party.
Of course, when I went to what is now St. Joseph’s University, it only cost $600 a year, which my family could afford. Now it’s about 50 grand. Hence, the student loan problem.
Something to think on …
I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife
— Kurt Gödel, born on this date in 1906
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Expel them all …
… The extremist leaders of Columbia's anti-Israel protest camp.
After all, they alread think they know everything.
Choosing unknowing …
… Resisting our 'new dark age'. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
I want to know less about the things that divide us and more about the things that unite us. Less about the scandalous and personal and more about the transcendent and universal.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Something to think on …
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius, born on this date in 121
Thursday, April 25, 2024
I should think not …
… This strong evidence of the link between covid vaccines and cancer can no longer be ignored - The Conservative Woman.
I didn’t get the vaccine. My cardiologist agreed. I am in the top 1 percent of the population to die of a heart attack. I also got tested for Covid frequently, since I couldn’t visit Debbie without being tested. Always negative. I have a good immune system.
Something to think on …
What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.
— Walter de la Mare, born on this date in 1873
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Interesting …
I don’t usually opine on this subject, but I have some personal info that I think is pertinent. As a love child — i.e., illegitimate — I was surely a candidate for abortion, though I doubt the thought ever crossed my mother’s mind. Trust the science, we are told. Well, the basic science is that the fetus is a genetically unique living being. If the pregnancy is a threat to the mother’s life, that may prove an exception — though the mother may be willing to take the risk. But in the case of rape, both mother and child are victims. They could bond on that. I do not think the mother’s convenience should be decisive. After all, there are ways of having sex that can prevent pregnancy. OK, I’m a man. So how much does my opinion count? But I think the matter is deserving of more careful pondering. We are talking about taking a life. Who knows what that kid might achieve?
Something to think on …
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
— Anthony Trollope, born on this date in 1815
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Another racist
… Liberal mayor makes discriminatory comments that have people concerned ,
Maybe he should check out Martin Luther King: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Excuse me, your Honor …
So this clown can decide what parts of the Constitution are admissible in her courtroom. Remove her.
A tradition we can do without …
… It Always Starts With the Jews.
These so-called students are obviously ignoramuses, and that’s the kindest thing one can say.
Something to think on …
Like all great rationalists you believed in things that were twice as incredible as theology.
— Halldor Laxness, born on this date in 1902
Word master …
… Dostoevsky’s idiom. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
… Dostoevsky owes much of his verbal virtuosity to intuition rather than deliberate strategy. In every case, his word choice, however bizarre it first appears, makes the most accurate and mean ingful response to the momentary situation created by the plot or a character’s im mediate experience.
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