Quotes
Sunday, October 7th, 2007
8:16 pm
When I can’t see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn’t help much.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Lewis on Homer
Monday, September 24th, 20078:48 pm
The general result of this is that Homer’s poetry is, in an unusual degree, believable. There is no use in disputing whether any episode could really have happened. We have seen it happen — and there seemed to be no poet mediating between us and the event. A girl walks on the shore and an […]
It’s good to know these things
Tuesday, March 13th, 20074:32 pm
“A man touches his hat but does not look more than briefly at a woman to whom he gives up his seat. He then stands as far away from her as possible and does not look in her direction.”
-Amy Vanderbilt’s New Complete Book of Etiquette
Monday, October 9th, 2006
10:50 am
“Ah ha!”
-Socrates
Whirligig?
Thursday, August 31st, 20064:19 pm
“‘From Roum have I come,’ shouted the priest, waving his whirligig, ‘from Roum, blown by the breath of a thousand devils across the sea.’”
I’ve recently discovered a very large room full of books, including a short story by Kipling which includes the word “whirligig.”