Wednesday, October 2, 2013
AFOLABE
No man loses his shadow except it is in the night, and even then his shadow is hidden, not lost.
— Derek Walcott, “From Omeros”
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
No ideas but in things.
— William Carlos Williams via Paul Muldoon
Monday, September 30, 2013
I’m me.
Me be.
Goddamn.
I am.
— Weezer, “Undone (The Sweater Song)”
Sunday, September 29, 2013
What brought you to this curious piece of literature?
— Teddy
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Interestingly, it is the mere probability.
— Charles C. Camosy, “Peter Singer and Christian Ethics”
Friday, September 27, 2013
As my wife, the professional ethicist, often says: we don’t make important decisions in our life for rational reasons very often.
— Keith Barrington, “23 Weeks 6 Days," Radiolab
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Through the shells of empty buildings and great columns of glass.
They say you don’t look.
They say you don’t look.
— Andrew Bird, “Orpheo Looks Back”
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
The danger would be to be too reductive that it would become a concept.
— Jesse Reiser
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Art is something that’s wrapped around it maybe.
— Kai
Monday, September 23, 2013
Run.
— Ratatat, “Ghostface Killah & Jadakiss - Run”
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Like hammocks of skin.
— Paul Muldoon, “Dancers At The Moy”
Saturday, September 21, 2013
OK.
— David, C.O.G.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Friction is good, it keeps things together.
— John Hunter
Thursday, September 19, 2013
No, in an age of avant-gardism the only possible strategy to counter a new style which you detest is to leapfrog it.
— Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
With a sigh Braque waited for his old comrade Pablo’s imminent collapse as a painter and a human being… But the damnedest thing happened instead! Picasso just kept ascending.
— Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Only when he gave himself up to the idea that the arrow made its own way.
— Paul Muldoon
Monday, September 16, 2013
We are already picking and choosing.
— Peter Singer
Sunday, September 15, 2013
But when I do I wonder why.
— Asaf Avidan, “One Day / Reckoning Song (Wankelmut Remix)”
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Socrates is skeptical and asks, Is conduct right because the gods command it, or do the gods command it because it is right?
— James Rachels, The Elements of Moral Philosophy
Friday, September 13, 2013
It’s also just truth seeking and everything else.
— Nat Oppenheimer
