“One cannot wish for a more comfortable seat than an acquiescent pig.”
~ Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
Month: June 2016
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“What is, is now, must have the quivering intensity of an arrow thudding into a tree. Yesterday is dim and monochrome. A week ago you were not born.”
~ J.A. Baker, The Peregrine
276
When asked why a certain dog always slept on a certain tile of the floor, [Empedocles] replied that the dog and that one tile were similar in ways we didn’t know, but had an affinity they recognized.
~ Eliot Weinberger, An Elemental Thing
275
“To use words and phrases in an easygoing way without scrutinizing them too curiously is not, in general, a mark of ill breeding; on the contrary there is something lowbred in being too precise.”
~ Plato, Theaetetus
274
The Oregon Coast at Cape Lookout, my photo.
273
“As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one when we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.”
~ E.M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
272
“He did not have love as we understand it because he had no gin.”
~ Will Cuppy on Peking Man in How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes
271
“Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which presents nothing.”
~ John Ruskin, Modern Painters
270
“Injustice and greed would be the real things if we lived forever. As it is, we must hold to other things, because Death is coming. I love Death – not morbidly, but because He explains. He shows me the emptiness of Money. Death and Money are the eternal foes, not Death and Life.”
~ E.M. Forster, Howard’s End
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Kids in an Oregon campground, 1930s. Photographer unknown.
[Note to regular visitors: I’m taking a break from the blog for the next week or two. I’ll be back in later June.]
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