July 2010
2 posts
June 2010
3 posts
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925
April 2010
3 posts
An “impact video” for DDD, shot and edited by Adele Pham, with directorial assistance from yours truly.
February 2010
17 posts
Maybe that’s what life is…a wink of the eye and winking stars.
– Jack Kerouac, Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956, 1996
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image...
– Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1940
History is at once freedom and necessity.
– Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1971
January 2010
12 posts
Try not to live in a linguistic slum. Attention is vitality. It connects you...
– Susan Sontag, Vassar Commencement, 2003
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more...
– Benjamin Disareli, Vivian Grey, 1826