March 2012
“Now, why should the universe be constructed in such a way that atoms acquire the...”
– Marcus Chown, award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster, currently cosmology consultant for New Scientist magazine, The Magic Furnace: The Search for the Origins of Atoms, Oxford University Press, 2001
February 2012
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“That is why the better part of our memory exists outside ourselves, in a blatter...”
– Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, trans. Moncrieff and Kilmartin
“Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway testing his shotgun
Celine...”
– Charles Bukowski
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve, Adrienne Rich
Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon’s eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the...
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“I miss you because memory
is a kind editor.
The past is a long scroll and
in...”
– Cory Mesler, Return Key
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“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
– Albert Camus
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“The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the...”
– Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) English biologist.
“Because the day’s threaded through hours
the way a skewer’s threaded through...”
– Alan King, The Exchange
“Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“And every other song I can’t remember now would come on and I would instantly...”
– Our Shared Math of Interstate Travel - tremblebot
“The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
– The End, Lemony Snicket
“Ancestral Lines
It’s as when following the others’ lines,
Which are the tracks...”
– “Ancestral Lines” by David Ferry
“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and...”
– Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
