February 2012
33 posts
“There are very few thoughts or concepts that can’t be put into plain English,...”
– E. B. White, Why Brevity Is Not the Gold Standard for Style (via nevver)
“… the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our...”
– Umberto Eco (via nevver)
“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In...”
– John Fowles (via perspectivemirror)
“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, wife of the late Carl Sagan. via see-reverse-side
“Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.”
– ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness. Wait - what ?:
The White Stripes - Jack On Fire.
The Gun Club - Jack on Fire. Fire of Love, 1981 -...
January 2012
100 posts
“Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalised such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful in criticism, I mistrust them as fatally reductive. “Ah, the Night Sea Voyage!” we cry, feeling that we have understood something important — but we’ve merely recognised it. Until we are actually on that voyage, we have understood nothing.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin....
“I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t...”
– Ingrid Bergman (via feedforthefire, ladyslane, jadorelavie)
Detroit Becoming, Detroit Jesus
Kids play at the Campus Martius Fountain in Detroit. (photo: Maia C./Flickr, cc by-nc-nd 2.0)
by Susan Leem, associate producer
After listening to this week’s show with Grace Lee Boggs (“Becoming Detroit”), Peter Putnam sent this inspired response:
“Time Inc. was here for a year — and this is the story they missed: Detroit becoming. Full disclosure: I’ve known Grace since 1993. In fact, I...
