“Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.”
Source: Death in a Tenured Position
“Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.”
Source: Death in a Tenured Position
“My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.”
Source: Eye Scream
[Stupid White Men ...and Other Excuses For the State of the Nation!, 2001, 0060392452, 49040476]
2001
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
[2003, The Play of Masks, World Wisdom, 12, 978-0-94153214-3]
Miscellaneous, Religion
Quote of Breton, from the Introduction of his 'Manifesto du Surréalisme', Andre Breton, 1924
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)
“A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.”
Eine Familie, die keine schwarzen Schafe hat, ist keine charakteristische Familie.
"Die schwarzen Schafe" (1951); cited from 1947 bis 1951 (Köln: F. Middelhauve, 1963) p. 478. Translation: "Black Sheep", in Leila Vennewitz (trans.) The Stories of Heinrich Böll (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1995) p. 408.
Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci (1895)
Context: Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse. All criticism is dominated by the outworn theory that the man is the cause of the work as in the eyes of the law the criminal is the cause of the crime. Far rather are they both the effects.
Address to the Fiji Law Society, Coral Coast, Fiji, 2 July 2005 (excerpts)