May 2012
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“There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go—if...”
– Bernard Malamud
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“You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the...”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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April 2012
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An Intro to John Irving
John Irving has a new novel In One Person: A Novel . I started reading him, like many people, with The World According to Garp but then I went back and read his three earlier novels in order: Setting Free the Bears, The Water-Method Man, and The 158-Pound Marriage which deal with many of the ideas that really bloomed in Garp.
John Irving has said:
In my opinion, no overview of my novels is...
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“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“What’s the point of going out? We’re just going to wind up back here...”
– Homer Simpson
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“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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Fe = iron
male = man
female = ironman
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A Birthday Party for Ludwig
No one seems to really party for the birthday of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, born in Vienna in 1889. He was described by his colleague Bertrand Russell as “the most perfect example I have known of genius as traditionally conceived: passionate, profound, intense, and dominating.”
This fellow Austro-Hungarian gave away his inheritance to his siblings, and also to an assortment...
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Is that a poem in your pocket? →
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“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator....”
– Vladimir Nabokov
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“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Have a Poet's Day
British-ism: “having a poet’s day” = leaving work at noon and spending the rest of the day drinking in a pub.
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“Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.”
– Carol Burnett (and others)
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“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
– Charlotte Brontë
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“All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man...”
– William Shakespeare - was born on this day (and died on this day in 1616 at the age of 52)
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Shakespeare
Today is when we celebrate the birth and death of William Shakespeare, born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England (1564).
We’re not entirely sure about the day he was born but he was baptized on April 26th, and since infants were usually baptized about three days after their birth, his birthday is celebrated today.
In Shakespeare’s time, plays were not published for readers. If they...
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“Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.”
– Kingsley Amis
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“A warrior never worries about his fear.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”
– Marshall MacLuhan
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No Bloomfest
Due to inclement weather in the forecast, NJ’s Essex County Bloomfest today (April 22) has been cancelled.
There’s some irony in that somewhere.
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“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
– Matsuo Basho
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Dark Side of the Moon
Get out your copy of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon to celebrate tonight’s New Moon when the dark side of the moon turns full face to us
Pink Floyd music
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“One day’s exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books.”
– Today - the day before Earth Day - is the birthday of writer and naturalist JOHN MUIR who was born in Dunbar, Scotland (1838). When he was 11 years old, his family moved to America and started a farm in Wisconsin.
He was working as a sawyer in Indianapolis when he had a terrible accident in the...
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