February 2010
100 posts
January 2010
120 posts
“He had a way of turning things over with his fork, as if to say, “Well, I don’t...”
– George Ade
Andrew Pekler | Steady State
“Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln
The Album Leaf | Eastern Glow
“You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Patty Griffin | Rowing Song
“It seems to me that the real clue to your sexual orientation lies in your...”
– Christopher Isherwood
The Sea and Cake | Bird and Flag
Patty Griffin | What You Are
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Some Final Words
I cannot leave you without saying this: the past is nothing, a nonmemory, a phantom, a soundproof closet in which Johann Strauss is composing another waltz no one can hear. It is a fabrication, best forgotten, a wellspring of sorrow that waters a field of bitter vegetation. Leave it behind. Take your head out of your hands and arise from the couch of melancholy where the window-light falls...
