I first came across Leila Hadley when reading the letters of S.J. Perelman (Don’t Tread on Me) and eventually found her own books, the first a travel memoir of her youth as she prepares to leave New York City with her young son and see the world, and the second, another travel memoir a generation [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Leila Hadley
Posted in Uncategorized on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
True or False
Posted in Uncategorized on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“…it must always be foul to tell what is false; and it can never be safe to suppress what is true.” — Robert Louis Stevenson in The Art of Writing
“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.” — Ralph [...]
The Faith of Birds
Posted in Uncategorized on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round… The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are the stars. The wind, in [...]
Double Spaces
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography and type design, many compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of twentieth-century typists were then taught to do the same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from [...]
Doctors of Spin: Platonists or Satanists?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.” — Plato, The Republic
“These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination [...]
Unexpected Answer
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“The problem with God — or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God — is that He or She rarely answers right away. It can take days, weeks. Some people seem to understand this — that life and change take time. Chou En-lai, when asked, ‘What do you think [...]
Morning
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“The sun rose higher. Blue waves, green waves swept a quick fan over the beach, circling the spike of sea-holly and leaving shallow pools of light here and there on the sand. A faint black rim was left behind them. The rocks which had been misty and soft hardened and were marked with red clefts.
“Sharp [...]
Truth
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth, especially about oneself.” — Richard Pryor
Psalm 15: 1-6
Posted in Uncategorized on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A word to those in and around government who wear an American flag on one lapel and a cross on the other: “Lord, who may dwell in your tabernacle? Who may abide upon your holy hill? Whoever leads a blameless life and does what is right, who speaks truth from his heart. There is no guile [...]
Lovely Vita
Posted in Uncategorized on July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong. Not only do we not want to hear it verbally, but we do not want — we do not really want, not if [...]
