“A person’s destiny is something you look back at after it’s past, not something you see in advace.”
— Mr. Honda (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami)
Archive for November, 2008
23 Nov
Refreshing
15 Nov
A Pondering
It is music to any cynic’s ears when William Logan penned the following line in his New York Times review, I Write Entirely for you, of “Words in Air: The complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.”
“Sometimes falling in love is as much an act of criticism as criticism is an act of love.”
13 Nov
Life as a Defendant
“She was plumper and had not defended herself against time.”
— Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
The passage of time carries with it changes. Be it physical or emotional, both are imminent and unavoidable. However hard we try to fight it, we fail one way or another. As a kid, I was always wanting to be [...]
9 Nov
A Moment
“[A] passion–whether commotio, permotio, concitatio, or perturbatio–is nothing other than a movement of the soul caused by the sensate apprehension of a particular good or evil object and accompanied by an organic mutation.”
—Sydney Smith (Exiles by Ron Hansen)
8 Nov
yeah
A presidential election cycle has drawn to a close. There are many things to celebrate about and many things to be raged against also. I was thinking of writing up a recap of what happened this week. That of course was before I came across Mark Morford’s article, Its God Fault, in the San Francisco’s [...]
