What women never mention is that they are forever casting runes, the way the salt flecks the pastry flour, the way the apple peels fall to the table, the way the children’s shoes are arranged in the hallway, all these are portentous matters laden wi
I have decided to encourage the young. Once I wouldn’t have done this, but now I have nothing to lose. The young are not my rivals. Fish are not the rivals of stones.
So I will encourage them open-handedly, I will encourage them en masse. I’ll fling
Read more…Dear Brave Souls:
Something Toni Morrison said when she and I and Maya were writing the libretto "Woman.Life.Song" to be performed by us in spoken word, and sung by Jessye Norman at Carnegie Hall...
We were talking about our ancestral histories of be
Read more…The voice is that of a priest in 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' by James Joyce. He is trying to convey to his congregation what an eternity in Hell would be like. It is an impressive description of the idea of eternity, and terrifies the
Read more…Very nice book. Written in 1960.
''The Way and the Mountain is a selection of Marco Pallis' most important writings on Tibetan Buddhism. Pallis traveled extensively in the Himalayas and studied Buddhism from Lamas within the tradition before t
Read more…"In this provocative study of dancing, Sam Gill examines the interpretive styles of a variety of cultural dance traditions in discourse with the philosophic traditions of Schiller, Merleau-Ponty, Barbaras, Derrida, Leroi-Gourhan, & Baudrillard. As a
A writer I came across. Love the way he puts words together so exuberantly, so physically. Here are a few samples and a link to his site.
(The rough gods...)
“But the hour is getting late now. And when the stories we tell only have a human directiv
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“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”
The Gulag Archipelago
Read more…Good interview with Colin Wilson. (Video)
Putting it in here in the Book Nook as he wrote one of my favourite books - The Outsider
In the first 8 minutes of this video he speaks about his experience of panic attacks in a very vivid way. Later he spea
Read more…This book is worth a read, though some might find it depressing. It is not a literary work, it is a historical research; Browning puts together an account from the men's own confessions of how one regiment of the Order Police, ordinary guys from Hamb
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Nikola Tesla, writing about Mark Twain.
Read more…“I had hardly completed my course at the Real Gymnasium when I was prostrated with a dangerous illness or rather, a score of them, and my condition became so desperate that I was given up by physicians. Durin
Read more…Martel says that in both Life of Pi and The High Mountains of Portugal he has, essentially, been peddling Pascal’s wager: “You might as well live a godly life, because if He exists, well, great, you are going to go to heaven; and if He doesn’t, well
