What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.
--Marcel Proust
Astronomy Picture of the Day
A bang, not a whimper
Two months into L.'s retirement, and I'm finished with the stockpiling of books. No more book purchases! Or at least, no purcha...
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(See also Musee des Beaux Arts ) As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest ...
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When I finished Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead last spring I immediately did a search to see if the Coca-Cola Corp. had...
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