March 2012
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“May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends gathered below never...”
– Irish Blessing
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“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
– Edward Albee
The Mott Street Menagerie: DFW word of the day →
themottstmenagerie:
Indurate - VERB: in·du·rat·ed, in·du·rat·ing, in·du·rates VERB: tr.
1. To make hard; harden: soil that had been indurated by extremes of climate.
2. To inure, as to hardship or ridicule.
3. To make callous or obdurate: “It is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart”…
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that...”
– John Locke (via aspiretowritemore)
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“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Americus, Book I
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“What about books that disappoint? Many do. These, in my life, fall into two...”
– Larry McMurtry; Literary Life: A Second Memoir
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WatchJonathan Lethem and Steve Erickson: The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick was a masterful author. Even if you do not enjoy Science Fiction, Dick is an author you cannot ignore. You’ve probably already seen his work on the screen: Blade Runner, Minority Report, Paycheck, among others. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is a collection that was found in his files. The papers themselves...
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“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most...”
– Philip Pullman
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“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best...”
– Philip Roth 