Category Archives: reading

for AH: He helped Babette push her loaded cart. I heard him say to her, ‘Tibetans believe there is a transitional state between death and rebirth. Death is a waiting period, basically. Soon a fresh womb will receive the soul. … Continue reading →

“The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets. Ever pop coke in the mainline? It hits you right in the … Continue reading →

And if I failed to mention this detail in its proper place, it is because you cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those even less so. For if you … Continue reading →

He worked hard—seven hours a day; his subject was now the influence of something upon somebody—they were walking on and Mrs. Ramsay did not quiet catch the meaning, only the words, here and there . . . dissertation . . … Continue reading →

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment were contrived, much so-called education would disappear, … Continue reading →

On the hill there was a poor tramp wandering about with his stick, in among the carriages. A mass of rags covered his shoulders, and a squashed beaver-hat, bent down into the shape of a bowl, concealed his face; but, … Continue reading →

[The sharks] viciously snapped, not only at each other’s disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and bit their own; till those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again by the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping … Continue reading →

It is inherent in the technique of the film as well as that of sports that everybody who witnesses its accomplishments is somewhat of an expert. . . . Similarly, the newsreel offers everyone the opportunity to rise from passer-by … Continue reading →

First, as for yesterday and today’s titles: My summer reading schedule covers exactly 52 days (not counting days set aside for spillage). That’s the same number of weeks in a year or cards in a deck. Yesterday, on my first … Continue reading →