"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us." - Rainer Maria Rilke
I suppose Herr Rilke never had to deal with Time Warner Cable. Was on the phone with them from 8am to 930am. They ...Read More
"I am so hackneyed to the touches of painters' pencils that I am now altogether at their beck, and sit 'like patience on a monument,' whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. It is a proof, among many ...Read More
"We are looking at the relationship between color and the absolute magnitude of stars." - Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram
What other scientific things are we missing? If we can resolve the conflict of stellar evolution and hydrogen fusion, then why aren't we in ...Read More
Having the option to guide the dead to the underworld...
..seems a bit much to me. It's heroic and sublime. Hemingway the Hunter would be impressed - MOVED - by this optional advance in today's economic climate. I think Carl Jung ...Read More
The world is not an oyster to be had at lunchtime.
The state of global affairs can now be likened to the foamy lens of vengeance which rests beneath the cold eyelids of death-in-waiting. You can no longer pretend this never ...Read More