"Method of this work: literary montage. I need say nothing. Only show." --- Walter Benjamin
Monday, July 07, 2008
The Problem
We haven’t yet solved the problem of God,” the Russian critic Belinsky once shouted across the table at Turgenev, “and you want to eat!”
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Read
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. . . . Certainly we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap.Henry D. Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1849
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