Posted in imagination on Oct 27th, 2007 5 Comments »
“The philosopher Gilbert Ryle was once asked if he ever read novels. ‘Oh, yes,’ he replied. ‘All six of them, every year.’”
– Anthony Lane, Nobody’s perfect.
Posted in apophthegmata on Oct 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
“To spend more time thinking than doing is one of the few things held in greater suspicion than to spend time not spending.”
– David Hajdu, in “Stolen moments,” a review of recent recordings by Abbey Lincoln and Mark Murphy in The New Republic.
Posted in apophthegmata, imagination on Oct 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Four short poems
The link above will take you to four short poems — sourced from P.J. Kavanagh and James Michie (eds.), The Oxford Book of Short Poems – that I will be re-reading over the next few months. (As an aside, reading through the book I was surprised by how many of the poems it [...]
