Saturday, May 31, 2014

Dublin 1920

We are what we have endured.
--Elizabeth Keating, Republican Bulletin

Friday, May 23, 2014

The Nature of Reality


North America was full of corpses, traumatized survivors, and children whose cultural inheritance had been shattered beyond repair. Did this affect people’s behavior? Did it change their personalities? Did it affect the stories they told? How could it do otherwise?
--Robert Bringhurst, Guernica

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Yankee Ingenuity

The future ain't what it used to be.
--Yogi Berra

Thursday, May 01, 2014

Delightful Duets

Gilbert and Sullivan, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Peabody and Sherman, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale..