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Todd Leopold at CNN today on a novel by the late Gabriel García Márquez — “…a tapestry of almost biblical proportions….” See also Sermon (Sunday, March 6. 2011).
“For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.” — Gravity’s Rainbow “I don’t write exclusively on Jewish themes or about Jewish characters. My collection of short stories, Strange…
“Leave a space.” — Tom Stoppard
Art Wars view — image from a post at noon on Saturday, April 12: Kansas City view: Review of Seeing Gray , a book by pastor Adam Hamilton of the…
“What both cases illustrate, with their fuzzy rhetoric masking ideological pressure, is a serious moral defect at the heart of elite culture in America.” — Ross Douthat in…
(Continued from June 9, 2009) “The craziness is receding but no clarity is taking its place.” — Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking A possible source of clarity:
For the late Allen E. Puckett, Hughes Aircraft engineer and CEO, who reportedly died at 94 on March 31 (the birthday of René Descartes) —
Tom Cruise at the Vatican in MI3 Other descents of change: Sacred Space and Cube Descending. Context— Last night’s post Change Arises, on Walter Gropius, Wolfe’s “Silver Prince.”
In memory of Lucia Eames, who reportedly died on April 1, 2014: “… Walter Gropius was her professor ….” See also in this journal Gropius and the April…
The New York Times yesterday on Chloë Grace Moretz: “The public may see her in a certain, put-together way, she said: ‘But when I go home, I’m like, “Let’s…