Perplexities & Passages
A collection of thoughts and quotations that slant, bend, twist, provoke, perplex ... Topics range widely, focusing on health, information, librarianship, technology, ethics, advocacy, accessibility and more. Collected by Patricia F. Anderson.
Last surviving witness of Lincoln's assassination
This film would have been broadcast right about the time I was conceived. Phenomenal illustration of the telescoping of time, and how very young America is.
Merton on Politics and War
“Indignation is not enough. The world is full of people who use it to excuse everything, including the worst of actions.”
Thomas Merton, in a letter to Mark Van Doren on the subject of the arms race. As quoted in:
Lawlor, Patrick T. “Poet to teacher, Thomas Merton’s letters to Mark Van Doren.” Columbia Library Columns November 1989 39(1):18-30. p.27.
“And a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
Tyrion Lannister.
(via priihfrasnelli)
the24project: Untitled - April Parent
This is how you make a life:
Pull talking out of people like a dentist performing a root canal. Hurt them
with the pulling. Haul it out energetically,
spread the talking around you like blankets, until you can’t
hear each other over all the muffled syllables, the too-long vowels.
the24project: Desdemona - Laura Brown
Real life is like this:
Desdemona
He was a brute and I knew it,
real bad news,
but I loved the smell of danger,
his animal reek.
He loved me more,
gave me a fistful of it,
collecting bruises like love tokens
and broken bones like Valentines.
My arm, twisted.
My…
reading women like a book the way you do
seeing through their breasts
into that pea-sized death
every woman knows she owns from birth. ” - Kennedy, Terry. “For Hatfield, the Radiologist.” Her Soul Beneath the Bone, ed. Leatrice H. Lifshitz. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (c)1988, p. 5.
for the morning. I work. Nothing
will come between me
and all that I love. I will never
be done with the sweeping up
of common things,
the straightening, the putting away. ” - Skipper, Louie. “Yes, Light.” The Fourth Watch of the Night. Davis, CA: Swan Scythe Press, (c)2001, p. 35.
“I don’t know. It’s just that I’ve got the early morning blues.”
(via smut-to-go)
