Miniatures
“The trains were also a bridgehead of a much larger scheme that was organizing itself in Walt Disney’s mind. At least as early as 1947 he had begun collecting miniatures—furniture, Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Books
Weekend 171.1
(1) Stained glass in an 18th century library (2) Faith is an attitude; it is saying “Yes” when reason might well suggest “No.” Yet reason itself is without tone and Continue Reading →
Auld Lang Syne
Days of Auld Lang What? The Road Into the Open: Could a best-selling Finnish novel change your life?
Weekend 162.0
The blinking of its ruby lights could been seen at dusk from Windsor Castle, the terminal’s forms giving shape to the promises of modernity. – Alain de Botton (1) Airport Continue Reading →
Christmas Week
On Palin’s Reading List, C.S. Lewis (WSJ) For Lewis, one of the best ways to know a person was to know what they read. He was convinced that books defined Continue Reading →
Resplendent
The blogger with many visions™ is thawing. I just finished The Fighting Temeraire by Sam Willis. This book is more than a dry historical reprint; it is a graphic re-telling Continue Reading →
As true…
…today and it was then. “The problem was that Mumford, along with many other “progressives,” had a rather inflated sense of self-importance.” – James Mauro, Twilight at the World of Continue Reading →
Weekend 153.1
Just finished Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age and this excerpt from Lady Gaga and the death of sex seems apropos. Generation Continue Reading →
Weekend 152.1
The illustration is from Here Is New York City by Susan Elizabeth Lyman and Dorothy W. Furman. It was published in 1962 and illustrated by Mary Royt and George Buctel.
Weekend 150.0
“In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to Continue Reading →