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He pointed to a picture of the actress walking down a California beach with an unidentified friend who held the baby against her chest. A large dog ran just ahead of the women and splashed in the surf. “I can see that Jodie Foster is holding in one hand a leash,” Pascal said. “But what is it she is carrying in the other hand? I have asked many peop
... See moreDavid Sedaris • Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Art of Looking: Eleven Ways of Viewing the Multiple Realities of Our Everyday Wonderland
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Philosophy introduced a new element to the relationship with external opinion, what one might visualize as a box into which all public perceptions, whether positive or negative, would first have to be directed in order to be assessed, and then sent on to the self with renewed force if they were true, or ejected harmlessly into the atmosphere to be
... See moreAlain de Botton • Status Anxiety (NON-FICTION)
Or it might be that some cranked-out commercial crap gets a cultural reappreciation. We’ve seen that happen too. For all we know, the classic Greek plays were daytime dramas to the locals. I can see it now—in one hundred years, university students will be analyzing the details of every Three’s Company episode!”
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
“The question of wheth... See more
Judith Schaechter • An Artist’s Immersion Into Neuroaesthetics
Important things are inevitably cliché, but nobody wants to admit that. And that’s why nobody is deconstructing Saved by the Bell.
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
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