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“There is next to nothing so big that it can’t be put into a pot,” the older man said.

But they can't make a decent man?

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Why books are for schnooks

1. He had always been somewhat afraid of her.

“One runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.” – Joan Didion, 1961.

Wanna buy a restaurant in Paris?

"Sovereign is he who decides on the exception." – Carl Schmitt, 1922.

Did Jean-Jacques Rousseau fall, shoot himself, or was he bludgeoned to death?

2 June. Wrote almost nothing. – Franz Kafka, 1912.

He had watched the battle through his host’s field glasses from the top of a cliff six miles away.

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. – Luis Buñuel

and a bottle of Alsatian wine, and maybe some human growth hormone pills and the centrifuged blood of an 18-year old.

“I would have made a good pope.” – Richard M. Nixon, 1974

How do you say "Easter bunny" in Latin?

Can we cross them all once? And only once?

"I mount! I fly!" – Mr. Pope, 1712.

"Everything you can imagine is real" – Pablo Picasso

sitting in a chair minding my business in front of a weird dish (recipe below)

"Don't fall in love with power." – MF, 1977

It is not a time for the creative to fail, to shrink, or to stop working. – Pablo Picasso, 1944

"I don't have a lot of memory in my head" - Ryuji Tonaki

“All conviction is an illness,” Francis Picabia, Ecrits, 1913-1920

Even before/I decide which to take,/which to twist from the wet rocks,/which to devour,/they, who have no eyes to see with,/see me, like a shadow,/bending forward.” – Mary Oliver, "Mussels", 1979

"Quand on veut que tout change, on appelle le feu." – Gaston Bachelard, La psychanalyse du feu, 1938

"If stupidity were not confusingly similar to progress, ability, hope and improvement, no one would want to be stupid." – Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities, 1931

"Indicate precisely what you mean to say/Yours sincerely, wasting away." – Lennon-McCartney, "When I'm Sixty-Four", 1967

"We would all believe in God if we knew He existed, but would this be much fun?" – J. Ashbery, “The Invisible Avant-Garde,” 1972

"I feel like the Israelites in the desert coming across manna, and thinking: what the fuck is this?" – Philip Larkin

"What, what is that you tried to say?" – Thom Yorke, 2000

"I am a frequency, current flies through." – Jorie Graham, "Ebbtide", 2001

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“Thought” of the day: I am bemused by “bemused.” I don’t think it should mean what it means.

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Lines composed after a week alone in the countryside with a universal remote.

C'était du tonnerre. Dans l'histoire des mauvaises idées celle-là est remarquable. Ça a fait un tabac. C'a été un journée d'enfer.

“Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?”—Stephanie Nicks

"Don't shout, idiot." — Francisco Goya

* "flower" in Huuy-ay-aht

Are Popes infallible? Do Presidents shit in their hats?

On Covid in Canada Just Before the Polls Close in France

Reading and writing are dead. The Fifth Republic just took a dump. I like fish. Typhus is terrifying.

“Ce peuple, apparemment tranquille, est encore dangereux.”—Raymond Aron

The sane should flee/ from whence madmen command/ because when blind men lead/ woe to those who follow behind! —Gómez Manrique, 1480

Fruit flies like the yeast and fungi that cause the fermentation of organic matter.