“In unnaturally clear March twilight when the air is chill, one reflects upon passionate hearts now in their graves and wishes that the swiftly running hours were more intense.”
—John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy
March 2011
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Q: Where do you go to meditate?
A: A small, grey box, into which no thoughts can flow, that exists in a corner of my mind.
” —Jon Ellis
“Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.”
—Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian Symbolist
“We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.”
—Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Bloomington (29 May 1856)
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If the pope claps with one hand in the woods, what has that got to do with the price of tuna?
The pope doesn’t clap with one hand, but he does fan away his farts like the rest of us. So Tuna prices will rise because demand goes up during Lent, which is happening now. He remembers it was the Portuguese missionaries who brought Tempura to Japan…
“Do unions raise wages? It is now clear, I think, that whether or not you think unions raised wages 50 years ago, the absence of unions and their weakness that is inflicted by anti-union public policy depresses wages. The fact is that people who are not represented, in the service industries in particular, are the victims of policies which depress their wages”
—BARNEY FRANK, speech, Jan. 3, 2007
“When economic interest is seen behind the political causes of the Constitution, the document becomes not simply the work of wise men trying to establish a decent and orderly society, but the work of certain groups trying to maintain their privileges, while giving just enough rights and liberties to enough of the people to ensure popular support.”
—Howard Zinn A People’s History of the U.S.A.
WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
swimming in darkness
