- “Macbeth’s dilemma is that he wishes for acts without consequences–the only real impossibility.” — Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary #
- “politeness of heart” = “the emotion in which love is not a rapture and has not yet become a ‘passionate friendship'” — Alberto Manguel #
- “Not many people have small dogs in Alaska… the eagles eat them.” — former co-worker #
- “Speech is a river of breath bent into hisses and humms by the soft flesh of the mouth and throat.” — Steven Pinker #
- headline: Court detains preacher with 86 wives. http://is.gd/2KN1 (handcuffs and a cell weren’t enough, they had to drop 86 women on him) #
- listening to devendra banhart’s “smokey rolls down thunder canyon.” good stuff… #
- i am now using 1GB in gmail. that’s a lot of emails. that’s 10923 emails, actually. #
- @wilw dear catastrophe waitress. sinister is their best known, dcw’s better imo. #
- @wilw “If You Find Yourself Caught In Love”, “wrapped up in books” and “lord anthony” are especially good. #
- i’m waiting for the war with albania to make the news. what? there’s a war in albania? (cough, wag the dog, cough) #
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