Sublime

Herman Mankiewicz,

Maria Popova, who writes the popular site The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), spends her days reading old books and essays. She’s passionate about finding ideas, beauty, and wisdom in these texts and then connecting them in her own unique conversation with the world.

There are no more men like Henry Flagler, and there are no more dreams like his. Today we have software titans, and their minions who seek to bridge gaps measured in millimicrons and nanoseconds. Such accomplishment may be dizzying in its own right . . . but that kind of bridge-building…

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John wandered into the room, wearing a blue bathrobe. “I got the Saturday jits,” he said. “I got anxiety crawling over me. Do you have any coke?” She went to the kitchen to get him a Coca Cola. “Joan never writes about a place that’s not hot,” he said. “The day she writes about a Boston winter will be the day it’s all over.”

On the heels of deathcall there’s a great flood, biblical in its scope and timing.

MAN!

tautology,

“WHAT do you think of New York?” Wally asked one day when he took her out to lunch. Without Janet and the Russian Tea Room, with just Wally at lunch, New York somehow felt sensible. “You mean, what do I think of New York?” she asked. “That’s what I asked,” he said. Jacaranda attempted gathering her thoughts and composing herself, but neither of tho

Italo Calvino once remarked, “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”