January 2010
9 posts
A Celebration of David Foster Wallace →
peterwknox: Nine peers pay tribute with a talk or essay. Strong suggestion. Amy Wallace-Havens is David’s sister. She is a deputy public defender in southern Arizona. Bonnie Nadell is vice president of Frederick Hill Bonnie Nadell Agency in Los Angeles. Gerry Howard is an executive editor at large for Doubleday. Colin Harrison is a novelist, and a vice president and senior editor at Scribner....
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“On this day honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., let us not forget our civil right...”
–  Paula Crossfield, “Booker T. Washington on School Gardens and the Pleasure of Work,” January 18, 2010
Jan 18th
pheezy: “Music is the sound of the circulation in nature’s veins. It is the flux that melts nature.” - Thoreau
Jan 16th
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“Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is a vanity, and power is a pageant; but knowledge...”
– —De Witt Clinton (via peterdurand)
Jan 11th
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