The totality of animals, the crushing majority of men, live without ever finding the least need for justification.
Michel Houellebecq, from his novel Submission as quoted by Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker.
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Monday, January 19, 2015
Saturday, January 10, 2015
We know the meaning of nothing but the words we use to describe it.
Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
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