Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Authentic Marginalia Goethe said that even the writing of plays, dividing the imagination up among different fictional personalities, damaged what he valued—the mind’s wholeness. I wonder what he meant exactly, since he also described his mode of thinking as imagined conversations with various people. Ted Hughes, The Art of Poetry No. 71 Paris Review

Culture Under The Counter That’s what they have been aiming for all along, and they long for it with all their heart! And isn’t it straight ahead and then to the left or something? But as they start to move again, they momentarily realize they are drunk as a skunk and that by the time they reach the other side of the street, they will most likely have forgotten again where they are going. And so they stumble on, half heroic and half ridiculous, pursuing a long, crazy peregrination toward heart’s home, not just lost, but only intermittently aware that they are even searching. The Drunk at the Crossroad

Salaud Salad The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. Douglas Adams

Manufacturing Dissent Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. William Lyon Phelps

Tchkotches to Marga Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling  

F Your Master Narrative Productive wandering is how projects are made. Ann Hamilton

Wisdom Loot Bag To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas Edison