~ Rebecca West, “The Tosh Horse”
“No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
Or you don't.”
― Stephen King, The Stand
The world is such a poorer place without her... Canadian poet and critic Judith Fitzgerald has died. An obituary ...
"As a poet, critic and person in the world, she was passionate, brilliant, forceful and sometimes difficult. I shall miss her."
Ink Flowed Like Blood WSJ. Karl Kraus
“We could do it, you know."
"What?"
"Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Patrick Kavanagh ( not related to Patricia Brereton) was a contrary soul, and not always immune to the lures of sentimentality, self-dramatization and self-pity. His sometime friend Flann O’Brien ribbed him about these romantic tendencies. Kavanagh writes in Self Portrait: “I fear that the mood I have been evoking may give the impression that what happened to me is important and that I am important. Nobody is important. Nobody is major. We get to our destiny in the end. I am not in the least bitter over all this. In fact I am always in danger of bursting out laughing.”
“I suppose the wise man lives as if he is on day-release from death, seeing `all sorts of beautiful things’ wherever he might be. But man is made for wisdom as dormice are for coal-mining. Kavanagh was an alcoholic who quarrelled with almost everyone, and my best resolutions are those that are soonest broken.”
Lifeline for elephants: Ivory price halves in China after Xi pledges ban Washington Post
Survival Strategy: The “Click-Bait” Novel?
Diving into Cold River via Atlantic
Lifeline for elephants: Ivory price halves in China after Xi pledges ban Washington Post
Survival Strategy: The “Click-Bait” Novel?
“You have to get the reader on the first page of a short story, you have to convince them of a world inside page one. As writers try to capture the scattered attention of readers, I think the novel is moving towards that degree of compression.”
New Study: Illicit Financial Flows Hit US$1.1 Trillion in 2013 Global Financial Integrity
Bank Crimes Pay: Under the Thumb of the Global Financial Mafiocracy Link Truth out
Hedge Funds Leave U.S. Pensions With Little to Show for the Fees Bloomberg
Oh CEOs Earn $60k a week ...The "inside job" is alive and well with a new survey showing bosses looking to fund their flashy lifestyles are the biggest fraudsters next to professional criminals and rank and file staff. Inside Job: Bosses funding flash lifestyles the biggest fraudsters
Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage ... “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” ― Albert Camus Cold Thoughts
Hedge Funds Leave U.S. Pensions With Little to Show for the Fees Bloomberg
Oh CEOs Earn $60k a week ...The "inside job" is alive and well with a new survey showing bosses looking to fund their flashy lifestyles are the biggest fraudsters next to professional criminals and rank and file staff. Inside Job: Bosses funding flash lifestyles the biggest fraudsters
Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive. Sometimes even to live is an act of courage ... “But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” ― Albert Camus Cold Thoughts
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~ Forever Young by Steven Carroll
Corruption, Again? CalPERS Keeping Lobbying Records SECRET From its Board Members California Political Review
Contention Attention – This Year’s Best Books Sparked Backlash
The New Republic
Contention Attention – This Year’s Best Books Sparked Backlash
“The most important consequence of a wave of adoring reviews, followed by a backlash of negative opinion is that it suddenly matters whether you’re the kind of person who loved A Little Life or just didn’t.”