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

Saturday, May 10, 2014

A Savior of the Snakes: Tomi Ungerer



Thank you, Tomi Ungerer, for de-vilifying the world's most elegant reptile.  There's no telling how many of these beautiful animals you saved through your art.