Friday, June 27, 2014
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From So Human An Animal, by Rene Dubos
"Environmental ugliness and the rape of nature can be forgiven when they result from poverty, but not when they occur in the midst of plenty and indeed are produced by wealth."
Sunday, June 15, 2014
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Sunday, June 1, 2014
Sylvia Plath on Utilitarianism
"I stared through the Russian girl in her double-breasted gray suit, rattling off idiom after idiom in her unknowable tongue . . . and I wished with all my heart I could crawl into her and spend the rest of my life barking out one idiom after another. It mightn't make me any happier, but it would be one more little pebble of efficiency among all the other pebbles." The Bell Jar
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Appalachian American Ennui: Newt Gingrich, The Lillelid Murders, and Appalachi... : NPR did a piece called "This I Believe" a...
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Great cover of Walking on the Moon, by one of my favorite bands, the Police. This is a great song about falling in love.