January 2011
16 posts
“You’re driving along, listening to a story on NPR. Suddenly, you find...”
– NPR : Driveway Moments
“It is what the internet lures out of us – hubris, daydreams, avarice, obsessions...”
– How novels came to terms with the internet | Books | The Guardian
“My connection was in danger—that was all. Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn’t we rather have a destiny to submit to, then, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?”
— Alice Munro’s “The Albanian...
On dermatology..
“A dermatologist sees grief and despair, though the problems that bring people to him may not be in the same class as tumors and blocked arteries. He sees sabotage from within, and truly unlucky fate. He sees how matters like love and happiness can be governed by a patch of riled-up cells.”
— Alice Munro’s “The Albanian Virgin” in Open Secrets, pg. 127
“…this is just the way of mortals when we die.
Sinews no longer bind the...”
– The Odyssey, 11.249-54, Fagles translation