February 2012
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“It is the theory which decides what we can observe.”
– Albert Einstein
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“Everyone here is an immigrant. Everyone came from somewhere else.”
– Eliza Griswold
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King of Hearts
The King of Hearts makes excuses for his wife. He’s always conciliatory, always tries to uphold the peace
- there is no peace -
rescues the latest hedgehog threatened with beheading, mends the flamingo with quills protruding from its cheek, cancels the Queen’s judgment.
He can’t escape his own chastisement: he was a fool to wed her. How was he to know what lay beneath the provocative...
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“Insight comes, more often than not, from looking at what’s been on the table all...”
– David McCullough (via austinkleon)
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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...”
– C.S. Lewis (via bookaddict24-7)
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“We talk about survivor’s guilt, but not about observer’s guilt. For...”
– Eliza Griswold
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Tea Time with the Mad Hatter
6:00 p.m. Tea time.
We sit down to tea.
Tea time!
Tea time. 6:00 p.m.
We change seats, sit down again to tea.
6:00 p.m. Tea time.
You invite the March Hare
Tea time!
to sit at the head of the table.
Tea time. 6:00 p.m.
The March Hare rolls his eyes, munches on a biscuit.
We share a look,
Tea time!
exchange seats.
6:00 p.m. Tea time.
You play the part of polite host, offer...
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“…for the screwball plot to work he [Vladimir Nabokov] needed a poem: so he...”
– Clive James
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“If you talk all the time about something, you stop knowing anything about it.”
– Kazim Ali
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“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love...”
– William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
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“I am terrified of producing a lousy advertisement. This causes me to throw away...”
– David Ogilvy (via smarterthaniam)
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The Queen of Hearts Orders an Execution
The Queen with her hedgehog-balls and flamingo-mallets -
The hedgehogs tire of being poked by flamingo beaks and roll away, hide beneath a rose bush.
The flamingos refuse to be quiet, open whatever good eyes they have left.
The Queen loses the game and her head, orders an execution of birds and hogs, bids the servants to paint the roses red.
The roses refuse the color - a final act of...
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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not...”
– Graham Greene (via understandingear)
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“Dance until you’re sweating. And beads of perspiration remind you of life’s best...”
– Tanya Davis
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“A badly made thing falls apart. It takes only a few years for most of the energy...”
– Stanley Kunitz, “Reflections”
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The Hatter Goes Mad
The Hatter goes mad.
The March Hare looks concerned, doubts the bargain made with Father Time.
The White Rabbit becomes flustered, hops away.
Alice, fed up with the whole thing, follows the rabbit.
(Didn’t she learn her lesson the first time?)
Only the cat remains, flicking his tail, licking a paw, grinning that grin.
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“Creativity isn’t magic. It starts out simply enough — you’re copying and then...”
– Kirby Ferguson, creator of “Everything is a Remix,” quoted in a CNN piece on DJ Spooky (Kirby and I are hosting a panel at SXSW this March)
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