“Let us have faith that right makes might” - Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address
My elementary alma mater has the best engraved art. After six years of seeing this I’d like to think it sunk in.
May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013
"The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers ‘I’ve read it already’ to be a conclusive argument against reading a work."
— C. S. Lewis. An Experiment in Criticism. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961): 2.
May 19, 2013
May 19, 2013
"My sweetness is to wake in the night after days of dry heat, hearing the rain."
— Wendell Berry. “Water,” in Farming: A Handbook. (San Diego: Harvest, 1970): 11.
May 19, 2013
May 19, 2013
May 18, 2013
May 17, 2013
Some afternoons just call for a book you can’t put down and a cocktail.
May 17, 2013
One week until I’m in Portland! I am pumped!
May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013
"War, for the ordinary soldier, was a continuation of labouring by other means. The battlefield was a vast open-air factory where hours were long, unions not permitted and safety standards routinely flouted."
— Geoff Dyer. The Missing of the Somme. (New York: Vintage Books, 1994): 59.
May 16, 2013
"The acquisition of books is by no means a matter of money or expert knowledge alone. Not even both factors together suffice for the establishment of a real library, which is always somewhat impenetrable and at the same time uniquely itself."
— Walter Benjamin. “Unpacking My Library” in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. Edited by Hannah Arendt. Translated by Harry Zohn. (New York: Schocken Books, 1968): 63.
May 15, 2013
Two years ago tonight I landed alone in darkened Lima.
Oscar’s midnight taxi dash across the pulsating city into the darkened pueblo joven marked the beginning of my Peruvian adventure and a life-altering summer.
Someday I’ll return.
