Wednesday, March 3, 2021
The poet's true mastery is most fully displayed if those on the outermost edges still find the poems thrilling and revealing, even though they know absolutely nothing about any of the key players.
— Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
What happened to him!? He's feral now.
— Lily on the ping-pong ball we've been watching roll around the roof of the building across the street for many months
Monday, March 1, 2021
And in the river hundreds of swans, plucked once a year for the queen's bedding and upholstery.
— Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Sunday, February 28, 2021
But as a document charged with the remembering of friends and family in the final disposition of the goods so carefully accumulated during a lifetime, Shakespeare's will—the last trace of his network of relationships.
— Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Saturday, February 27, 2021
In relation to this economic reality.
— Paul Soulellis, "Urgent Publishing After the Artist Book: Making Public in Movements Towards Liberation," CABC
Friday, February 26, 2021
For there was a first time that he glimpsed her—if not at Kenilworth, then somewhere else.
— Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Thursday, February 25, 2021
I put a pack of pickles in my pocket and it exploded yesterday... Oops some mustard just fell out... and I have a toothbrush in my pocket.
— Lily on her full pockets
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
This is a market that moves so fast you can barely fact-check it.
— Kenny Schachter, "Kenny Schachter Gets Sucked Into the Surreal NFT Vortex… and Makes a Fortune Overnight in the New Virtual Art Market," Artnet
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
I don't have anything bad to say about these things.
— Chloe speaking to my Design History & Practice class*
Monday, February 22, 2021
Tying springs, locks, pins, cartriges, and other small pieces to beads and moccasins as though they were ornaments.
— Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Carry their lives on their fingernails.
— Cochise of the Chiricahua Apaches via Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Saturday, February 20, 2021
I like to store my memories in you.
— Lily
Friday, February 19, 2021
In 2002 a senior Bush advisor told a reporter for The New York Times that journalists "believe solutions emerge from judicious study of decernable reality, but that's not the way the world works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."
— Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
Thursday, February 18, 2021
But it may not be as great as you think. That's how secrets are supposed to be.
— Min Guhong, "Fruitful Presentation"
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
One explanation that fits some of the evidence, if not all of it, is that the century of economic growth that had begun in 1870 had been driven by inventions, from electricity to the automobile, and was not sustainable.
— Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
It's so important.
— Lily on back massages
Monday, February 15, 2021
Blumer argued that public opinion does not exist absent its measurement. Pollsters created it. "Public opinion consists of what public opinion polls poll."
— Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
Sunday, February 14, 2021
(The car dealer, in mid-transaction, wonders aloud how he can stand here telling me all of these lies, and I respond to his honesty with a renewed burst of trust and end up buying the car.)
— George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
Saturday, February 13, 2021
Orange cake.
— Emily
Friday, February 12, 2021
"Upton was beaten" Whitaker later said, "because he had written books." The Los Angeles Times began running on its front page, a box with an Upton Sinclair quotation in it, a practice the paper continued every day for six weeks right up to election day.
— Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
