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[fools not to know that half exceeds the whole,/How blest the sparing meal and temperate bowl. --Hesiod : Those useless phrases that come into the head. The Mind i8 grinding its colors: =-Josepn Soubert [Bat for [Me1]Brooks it was not that simple. When he told his Jewish mother that he was marrying an Italian actress [Anne Bancroft], she said: “Bring her over. I'll be in the kitchen--with my head in the oven." --Paul Rosenfield, LAT Calendar, 10/14/84 Bumper Sticker: Christ Died For Your Sins-. Make It Worth His While” -via Evelyn Glaser [Who do you be- lieve, me or your own eyes? Groucho Marx ot 5 = BEET eueeee® e- |e) 2ese BES | Flac Soo Seige) eee B= | Fes shs 8 ge) ars ee) ee eek 2 ua? 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Ah! & the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwaod leafmeal lies And yet you wfll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sérrow's springs dre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ¥%$ tne blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for, \d Lam now at an age when the cutting up of old toliches must be carefully watched and any sentence that begins “I remember” lasts too long fa my taste, even when I myself say it, --Lillian Hellman, Pentimento, p. 126. Among my students—let us come back to them, for they are our (via Kelly Tereby) KIA I"Stock knocking that broom againstthe bar," she screamed. @coddamit to hell, you making me nervous. fou want quiet sweeping, you get you a old lady. I sweep yawng." --Woole, CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES Childhood was aprison whose wars were decisions made by thers. -JHorgan Yihetever situation you nest in life, consider first whether it is really worth fighting ‘or.---Selye Try to get at the depth oF things--that is one place irony never goes down to. --Rilke, via Robert Bly Hopkins setquesse 03 atqeuseq eaeu sey yoefans U3 B3EP_J0 Apog p se9s_ ‘wry O70 oauapFAs sigopyre soudes5ord Oya’? | ‘You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything: the darkness that comes with every infinite fall societal protorypes—all this was depressingly plain. Thar is why they could not write intelligibly—no one had ever mentioned the relevance of writing to thinking, and thinking had never been en- couraged or induced in them. By “thinking” I mean, of course, not the simple ability to make equations come out right, but the devotion to speculation on that frail but obsessive distraction known as the human condition. My students—male and female—did not need to speculate on what goals are proper to the ful life: male and female, they already knew their goals. And their goals were identical. They all wanted to settle down into a perpetual and phantom coziness. They were all at heart sentimentalists—and sentimentalists, Yeats said, are persons “who believe in money, in position, in a marriage bell, and whose understanding of happiness is to be so busy whether at work or play, that all is forgotten but the momentary aim.” Ac- cordingly, they had all opted, long ago, perhaps at birth, for the domestic life, the enclosed life, che restricted life—the life, in brief, of the daydream, into which the obvious must not be permitted to thrust its scary beams. --Cynthia Ozick, Art and Ardor, p. 286. to dive into your increasing depths \ where life calmly gives out its own secret. and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing, and are raised to the rank of prince by the slippery ease of their light judgments. But what you love to see are faces that do work and feel thirst. You love most of all those who need you as they need a crowbar or a hoe. i ‘You have not grown old, and it is not too late —tr. Robert Bly, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, p. 27. DOOR TO DOOR XOKVIT: 3 KJA The best. form of government is benign dictatorship tempered by assassination, --Juan Peron (via Phil Citron) A publisher reportedly received the following reply to a request for permission to use a articular work willed to two nephews by the author: “My cousin and I hold the rights to xox. If my cousin gives his permission, I withhold nine, If he withholds his permission, I give mine." If she had died in childhood, she would have remembered life as the place you went, in cae you wanted to see bugs eat a grand piano. --Vonnegut, DEADEYE DICK, p. 221. A little prince was to make an excursion; they asked him: "Would Your Highness like to ride a norse or sail in a boat?" And he answered: "I want to ride a horse and sail ina boat." --jalmar Soderberg Pick a roomy spot between two introverts so you can concentrate on the meeting's objectives and help speed it along its way. --Harold L. Taylor, MAKING TIME WORK FOR YOU, p. 117. So there we had it--the ever-growing ball of American paranoia, the ball of string a hundred niles.in diameter,.with the unsolved assassination of John F. Kennedy at its core. --Vonnegut, DEADEYE DICK, p. 233. History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history. --Clarence Darrow chen one tugs at asingle thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. -John Mair [am great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more T have. --Lehanese proverb sTeTeqey-- ‘s6urumtr3 ey 203 : : S@EATOK-970M 98742 JO 9S0UR BE fpesn IMants strongest drive is neither love azom sutys uTTqoB-qoy ueaqxTs nor hate, but the overwhelming urge seaoTh sty 10 syzeds pue to change someone else's copy. --Wia Eugene Vale sueag "iq papunozins “suobeap y3TM pesToUyT pue poaerbue ‘szedsef user of7eT payz0m axon YoU Buowe fsoyrieq 7PeI6 Jo odeys oy; UT apem ‘seouno xTS pue pazpuny Om} pueRoy; eUO-K3ITF SUTYBTOM PTO Jo uTeID e pey ay’ | SOT, AGOW ‘eTTTATeN-- ‘sezeve70 ay amnzLe70 Axsa ay} 9NZTHA 3eUR {Feaszos zxeey FeYR UOdn spaaz eAn}THA e --snayzeworzg e WTY soxeu. snya BUTWUTYI SsuEqUT asoyMeY pUe fsey7 uT eanqeezd e pezeazD aaey sqybnoyy {ui ‘ue pTo ‘saya dTay pool] quey Tenueumr-= cedoy 1 Seu yeuM (€) pue cop 09 I ayBno 3eUM (Zz) gNouy I UD 3eYM (I) *SUOTISONb BUTAOTTOS eet |atA UT pereqUSD ST ‘TeoTqoeId se TISM se aaTzeTNDeds ‘uOsear JO ysa1eqUT eTOUM auL] areadsaxeus--*seouuzd 30 U3eeP 93 UIT0F |zeTG SeATESUEYZ sUaAeEY ouE fees sqou0D ou are erey3 ‘aTP szeB5eq uoUNl WREW ‘uebsoy tmes-- *ATuo AreTOdwequos sty st 3sT37e enz9 suL] udmptog weg-- *peutuexs peey sty aaey 03 quBNno asTAIwTYOASd we 9as 02 sa0d OYUN APogAUY] KITASTSO ‘uosdwoys, sewoys-- tueerp @ JO 3NO aFTT & OxeU OM ng ‘S703 JO INO HuTATT e syeu oml KIA ‘THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1984 Oppression Hasn’t Stilled Estonian Literature —— eee cyepwnmeowenn Schober a _ Enno _ ea Beer sa isi eat nae ean wie nner kan ea Xaplinsld has never explained . qnat i has been translated into Japa bse, Duteh and Spanish.” Estonian Writers in the West ee ee at see pied my Aco a at AL magerine cor who read he asylums, but many fled to the West. Gre Snape eet ial Sele ce te = toe Sais eit St Rscinhenduiben wey Sanaa ts ds ical : cay Paisspecthes, andnowheisstid- tonia but in Poland, where it was four continents. {eal cn for freedom trom sviet Union fo'be working at menial job in a tragslated and embraced by the Sol In his encyclopedia entry Mr. Ra botanical garden. pin Garity movement, 1 recently learned “he priaeipal Underground Anthem Excerpts From Said Vercingetorix: Caesar, ‘youtake from us the land ‘where we live, bout the land where we died ot International PEN. was noeak- ‘youcanot take from us. ‘nated a number of times for the Nobel Prize. International P.E.N. did not recog- nize the Soviet closing of either the Estonian or Latvian P-E.N. centers, Consequently thase chapters have re I've thrown down my sword ‘tyourfeet. onelanguage, one fith, one tha show we are, my people people. ow what will come Your state wll come and go. ee Whect wil grow in your pub- in larger editions, than any clher nation in Europe except Tee- Tand: word. Dothen whatever you will Thnow the cudgel and sword tiving in the Arvernian land. DOOR TO DOOR XXXVII:4 THE NEW YORK TIMES, «declaration vast fas r signed h off on by all of the appropriate Bue reaus, agencies and ents of the Continental Cover Jefferson Fainted Nam ellie tt Aa EA il Jane i 7 ule re Gu ie elgeze * ane | ae EER PEED SRET| FEL Tae PEEL: B32 3 Ui aa ee) (EEE! 3 HH q SES EEE: eee as i agp teats] ey E ral HAE EMG | [22s '4n930 yOu Tal pazeuLgseJ S,pneqJy Jo aseayd Bug UPYSTEAS ‘OANLQOM LeeULN— “ye d ‘Boepang Feog SIG [LEM aLoeutw ayy pua ayz ul yey3 aLqtssod you St 41, 38 ALPHA.PSigenics Research inatitute,lnc.: TEST YOUR_ANARENESS FIRST...read the sentence below FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE- RS OF SCIENTIF- ‘STUDY COMBINED WITH THE Tc. EXPERIENCE. OF MANY YEARS. NOW.. count the Fis in the sentence, Count then Gree ONLY: ‘Do no’ go"back end count en" azein {os in: he net yn, eae nn | 15a not slept much that nigh waking up to ead, and to hink about Arthur. Twas what he wanted to want, did not want, could not cver want, and that raat have pot an end to an old dream about the Kind of life that he would never have because he didn't really vant it, We have all done that about somebody, of place, or work, and isa ad day when you Gnd out that’s not accident or time or fortune but jus your self that Kept things from you. --Lillian Hellman, Pentimento, p. 195. “ez cd qsaty THERE ARE BILLIONS OF GRAINS OF SAND ON THIS BEACH! AND EACH ONE 1S DIFFERENT! 930U P[NoYys auo ‘uayyey fi 07 adLasne Uy PooYas (es aus YILM BuLzuaMLtadxe THE OCEAN CONTAINS: MANY SPECIES OF FISH! CAN You NAME. THEM ALL? Sy 80 opeyaey-- 203 paqiosay ay yeyy JO YdeT Edy sus: nut 23 040q | es == Be CLEARING A SPACE AT THE BEACH! 1° S COR TO DOOR XxXVII:7 You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them!— powers and people— and it is possible a great energy is moving near me. Thave faith in nights, | —tr. Robert Bly, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, p. 21. LD paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes be- ‘comes transparent. When that happens it is y unoq pey ous “uae] 7090 © Pue Eaop s,autobiography becomes a kind of case-history as well as a spiritual “wus qwoueseo pound-jeus Tt Jonq par—osnoy sed confession, with the reader as invited priest-psychiatrist. Finally, as a ¥ 30 DOTA ¥ pey eqs pax qam— om pomolpe eM IO} ore or less trustworthy linguistic bridge between orie self or soul and 39g dows hers, autobiography recreates a model of literate culture itself and social circumstances in which individual personality is discovered, red, and confrmed (or denied) and community potentially estab- shod, Albert E, Stone, Autobiographical Occasions and sem qs vaya Doowayye eno szpdoy om Te pares # Original Acts, p. 5. dons “spy ‘aver may u2es og pyaoo youn] plo ax) pue ‘oapred om 30 1003 om e 324s OM UTED puE JoqDTE ‘There are many ways of falling in love and one ‘BoosysauH © sexs PouoRUaN sopaeay] Tem FL00m oUL” seldom is more interesting of valid than another un- : less, of course, one of them lasts so long that it be = Hace: to Give Orders to a Baby comes something else, like your arm or leg about ae : which you neither judge nor protest. Iwas not ever to Lisa, just a year old. picks up blocks, shells, and soon and fall in love very often, but certainly this was the first puts thems m any convenient receptacle. [took advantage of time and I would like to think that ¥ leamed from it his when some friends came for cocktails, She tried to pull But the mixture of ecstasy as it dashed with criticism herself up on a small side table and spilled a dish of cocktail (of mypalf andthe fuan/was to be repented all my Mics ighieg ait the flad?, lip (hedish on the groundand said sad thas ony, ang thst made‘the esting for Unie You must pick them all up and put them in the dish Se Tee Pests ceaed by ieee WhItH of Feline dhe-dnl. ait ved ghe'w Gold, Ad | nol tom ni vec pve BE a ie edd oh desire into something more complex, more poetic, one-year-old was obeving a rather complex order. Even so. more unreachable. will the case turn up in a textbook? | =-Lillian Hellman, Pentimento, p. 61. --B. F. Skinner, Notebooks, p. 1. 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