Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Talk Treasure Train One could go even further and argue, after Walter Benjamin, that the product of the analytical mode is information, whereas the product of storytelling is wisdom. Maria Popova

A Morning At The Talk House With his fine tenor voice Joyce knew better than most that we read not with the eye but with the ear. Frank Delaney

Tangential Not Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination …  Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. Jim Jarmusch [MovieMaker] 

Well Said If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears… Arnold Schoenberg

I Hear Voices You break ranks, this is the path towards freedom, the rank-breaking path. Seamus Heaney

Ticklish Tikkun But the extremes? I know what it feels like to come racing around the corner at 90 miles an hour, sliding the car sideways. I know what gear I'm hitting it in when I'm coming around the corner and where I need to downshift. So to me, that's the fun stuff.  I think that just sitting down and having casual conversation is the hardest stuff to do. Paul Walker

Going to Pieces I remember when I was here two years ago after a long absence, I was quite startled at the upsurge of regional dialects in England as compared with twenty years earlier, and the relative decline of standard and homogeneous English, and the quite proud display of dialects that I hardly heard before when I lived here.  This drive in depth toward regional depth of culture is a normal feature of electronic forms because of this circuitry that involves us deeper and deeper in ourselves. Marshall McLuhan, Contemplating Me [emphasis JS]