Feb 8, 2010
Feb 7, 2010
Feb 6, 2010
Feb. 6, 2010
I like to go out – which includes traveling; I can’t write when I travel. I like to talk. I like to listen. I like to look and to watch. Maybe I have an Attention Surplus disorder. The easiest thing in the world for me is to pay attention.
Susan Sontag, as quoted in “The Writer’s Desk,” 1996.
Feb 5, 2010
Feb 4, 2010
Feb 3, 2010
Feb. 3, 2010
Not long into it, he’d cut the lardo into thin slices and, with a startling flourish of intimacy, laid them individually on our tongues, whispering that we needed to let the fat melt in our mouths to appreciate its intensity...No one that evening had knowingly eaten pure fat before (“At the restaurant, I tell the waiters to call it prosciutto bianco”), and by the time Mario had persuaded us to a third helping everyone’s heart was racing.
"Heat," by Bill Buford, 2006.
Feb 2, 2010
Feb 1, 2010
Feb. 1, 2010
"LeMay said if we lost the war that we would have all been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.
LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?"
Robert McNamara in "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara," released 2004, directed by Errol Morris.
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