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That¡¯s what I was thinking as I sang, though in actual fact I have never believed in any personalized distribution of eternal Light. No Lord God is going to see to it, no celestial accountant. It would be hard for one individual to bear so
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“A fisherman, who had just speared an octopus with his trident, was skinning it as its tentacles rolled around his tattooed arm.”
― My Friend Maigret
― My Friend Maigret
“We discuss and attempt to visualize final products and the specific aspects assignments will include, though we are careful to allow for creativity and innovation during the composition process, otherwise students are somewhat prohibited from taking risks and using composition as discovery.”
― The Graphic Novel Classroom: POWerful Teaching and Learning with Images
― The Graphic Novel Classroom: POWerful Teaching and Learning with Images
“A venerable Japanese proverb declares, ¡°The silkworm-moth eyebrow of a woman is the axe that cuts down the wisdom of man.¡± Likewise, the oldest surviving collection of Chinese poetry, The Book of Odes, features an entomological tribute to a noblewoman¡¯s face: ¡°Her forehead cicada-like / her eyebrows like [the antennae of] the silkworm moth / What dimples, as she artfully smiled!¡± Throughout China¡¯s imperial history, the attraction of a woman¡¯s ¨¦m¨¦i (¶êü)¡ªher ¡°moth-feeler eyebrows¡±¡ªwas a persistent theme.”
― The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World
― The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World
“The catalogue is his calling. It¡¯s his medium, his way of leaving a tangible legacy of answers, not just questions. Perhaps it expresses his desire to impose order on the bewildering world around us; the narrower context provided by an art collection allows us to examine that world and convert it into a system, a unified whole accessible to all. The catalogue may serve to demonstrate that order or harmony, even completeness is possible. As far as Pollak is concerned, both building a collection and cataloguing it are forms of art.”
― Pollak's Arm
― Pollak's Arm
“He believed that touching the limits of human experience was something he shared with the Prophet Muhammad, who was also reputedly epileptic. Dostoevsky¡¯s Prince Myshkin notes that Muhammad¡¯s ecstasy took the form of a mythical white creature who whisked the prophet away ¡°to survey all the dwellings of Allah¡± in the split second it took a jug of water to spill to the ground. That experience, Prince Myshkin says, is how he first grasped the biblical verse ¡°time shall be no more.¡± Dostoevsky was describing an ¡°ecstatic aura,¡± a phenomenon that researchers now realize affects some people with temporal lobe epilepsy.”
― The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
― The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
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