Weekend 402.0
(1) Quality, variety and surprise. How Walt Disney created a very real fantasy (Blooloop) (2) Quotes from The Man in the Castle by Philip K. Dick: “They want to be Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Quotes
Watercolors of sub-tropical scenes
(1) A quote from The Seven Storey Mountain from Thomas Merton: “Bermuda in those days had no big hotels and no golf-courses to speak of. It was not famous for Continue Reading →
Weekend 399.0 (Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down)
I think ‘Weekend Post 400.0’ needs to be something spectacular but I’m getting a little ahead of myself. I’ve been busy mining bitcoins¹ and helping my friend grieve after his Continue Reading →
Weekend 397.0
“Under modern conditions any effective invitation to Hell will certainly appear in the guise of scientific planning.” – C.S. Lewis, A Reply to Professor Haldane
Weekend 393.0 (All I do is keep the beat and bad company)
“At the heart of all Catholic life is a miracle, a mystery, the Blessed Sacrament. Surrounded traditionally by ritual and awe, it has been the formative aspect of Catholic art, Continue Reading →
Weekend 391.0 (Rollin’ down the Imperial Highway)
“The absence of conversation didn’t bother Kafuku. He wasn’t good at small talk. While he didn’t dislike talking to people he knew well about things that mattered, he otherwise preferred Continue Reading →
Weekend 390.0 (“Come on, let’s drive across to the Palisades”)
“…when you are stuck, with nothing in your head but your memories, and memories of memories, which form a map, some more recent than others, some about music, which you Continue Reading →
Weekend 389.0 (Cosmos ‘Versailles Tetra’)
“Envision the extraordinary brilliance and effects of the light in sun and moon and stars, in the dark shades of a glade, in the colors and scents of flowers. Then Continue Reading →
Weekend 387.1
A quote from The Prayer of Love and Silence by a Carthusian. “In order to free oneself and become detached from things, one must see them in their true perspective, Continue Reading →
Weekend 382.0
Two quotes from The Prayer of Love and Silence by a Carthusian. “Obedience and patience, we must remember, are not ends in themselves. ‘Art for art’s sake’ is nonsense, since Continue Reading →