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If you are a student of history (or if you ever read Berlin by Jason Lutes) this quote from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard just gave you chills. Paris has a strange atmosphere Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Quotes
Weekend 219.0
So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light. – Vincent Van Gogh (1) How cities fail their cyclists in different ways (2) Continue Reading →
Weekend 215.0 (Inventors Edition)
(1) The Nucleus of the Digital Age: In pursuit of hydrogen bombs, a math genius and a brilliant tinkerer in Princeton developed the modern computer (WSJ) (2) A related quote Continue Reading →
Speed of sound…
“But indifference is not a virtue. And neutrality is not a value. A cool box building has no place in this world–the world is enriched not by neutrality or indifference, Continue Reading →
Weekend 213.1 (Memento mori)
(1) A Supreme Confidence: A level-headed leader of men and nations—Eisenhower is revered today by both conservatives and liberals (WSJ) “Despite the spate of revisionist histories in recent decades, Eisenhower Continue Reading →
Weekend 212.2
(1) Where Time and the Timeless Intersect (WSJ) (2) “The moral, as I take it, is that sometimes you have to leave home for a while in order to recognize Continue Reading →
Weekend 212.1
(1) Fortune Cookie: “Appearance can be deceiving. Remember endurance makes gold.” (2) Happytime Pizza???? The Disney Feature Animation Bldg. includes a 1980s style arcade created by the studio’s set builders. Continue Reading →
Weekend 212.0 (“time stays around us like pools of color”)
(1) The Pursuit of Presence (WSJ) “All of his poems are inextricably linked to the places where they were written. For much of his adult life, Mr. Bonnefoy spent his Continue Reading →
Weekend 211.1 (Man is the measure…)
“But to me they were living and the turf that covered them was a skin, under which their muscles rippled, and I felt that those hills had called with incalculable Continue Reading →
Weekend 211.0 (Some break the rules, and live to count the cost)
(1) Fully Booked: Architect Annabelle Selldorf decodes the Morgan Library’s lofty design (WSJ) (2) Life With and Without Tradition (WSJ) (a) “The story is a cleverly constructed parable about the Continue Reading →