Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

A Cultural Counter-Environment Whether slow or speedy, he that seeks will find. Always apply with both hands the pursuit. For search is an excellent guide. Rumi

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