I know it’s October, but have a look at these ads, all from the Manhattan-bound platform of the Court Square E/M stop, and consider that there was barely enough remaining wallspace to accommodate that new Paul Blart spinoff.
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A weekly series that explores a featured theme by pairing classic quotations with urgent images. What recent news items inspired these textual/visual sets? Leave your guesses in the comments, and check back next Wednesday for the answers.
“You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”
—Henrik Ibsen
“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.”
—Whitney Houston
“Sex stops when you pull up your pants,
Love never lets you go.”
—Kingsley Amis
“I grow old...I grow old...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.”
—T.S. Eliot
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“Hell is other people.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre
“Unexemplary words and unfounded doctrines are avoided by the noble person. Why use them?”
—Dong Zhongshu
“The mythology of Einstein shows him as a genius so lacking in magic that one speaks about his thought as of a function analogous to the mechanical making of sausages.”
—Roland Barthes
“Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.”
—Samuel Johnson
“Man has great power of speech, but the greater part thereof is empty and deceitful. The animals have little, but that little is useful and true; and better is a small and certain thing than a great falsehood.”
—Leonardo da Vinci
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“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together”
—Anaïs Nin
VLADIMIR:
Moron!
ESTRAGON:
Vermin!
VLADIMIR:
Abortion!
ESTRAGON:
Morpion!
VLADIMIR:
Sewer-rat!
ESTRAGON:
Curate!
VLADIMIR:
Cretin!
ESTRAGON:
(with finality). Crritic!
—Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot)
“The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.”
—Oscar Wilde (The Importnace of Being Earnest)
“Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.”
—Lorrie Moore
“Strange how potent cheap music is.”
—Noël Coward
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“Aesthetic pleasure in the beautiful consists, to a large extent, in the fact that, when we enter the state of pure contemplation, we are raised for the moment above all willing, above all desires and cares; we are, so to speak, rid of ourselves.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer
“Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
—Carl Jung
“Don’t think of yourself as a surrogate mule, think of yourself as an entrepreneur of the physical.”
―George Saunders (from CivilWarLand in Bad Decline)
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein
"There are still subjects that are in the Realm of Pain Beyond Uncomebackability."
—Bill Peters (from Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality)
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You can unpack whole trunks full of adjectives trying to describe Deerhoof, whose twelfth album, Breakup Song, is out this week. But really, you should just listen to the new album (streaming here) and then come back and read about the slow course — and bumpy liftoff — of my Deerhoof love affair.
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A weekly series that explores a featured theme by pairing classic quotations with urgent images. What recent news items inspired these textual/visual sets? Leave your guesses in the comments, and check back next Wednesday for the answers.
“Confronted by evil, comedy feels no need to punish or correct. It answers with corrosive laughter.”
-Martin Amis
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay.”
-Romans 12:19
“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
-Salinger (from The Catcher in the Rye)
“That’s not writing, that’s typing.”
-Truman Capote
“Immediately, I’m scanning for anything that might be not just Murman-level Uncomebackable, but Pharaoh Uncomebackable, something so Pharaoh Uncomebackable that Necro will never leave his house again.”
-Bill Peters (from Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality)
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“It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill — it’s a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider.”
—Vincent van Gogh
“To be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless."
—Lacan
“That is why delirium and dazzlement are in a relation which constitutes the essence of madness, exactly as truth and light, in their fundamental relation, constitute classical reason.”
—Foucault
“In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!”
—James Joyce
“Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain.”
—Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”
-Andy Warhol
“Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We’re all nerds, on one subject or another.”
-Jonathan Lethem
“The brain is the organ of destiny. It holds within its humming mechanism secrets that will determine the future of the human race.”
-Wilder Penfield
“The virtue of maps, they show what can be done with limited space, they foresee that everything can happen therein.”
-Jose Saramago
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.”
-Nikos Kazantzakis
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Desmond Pepperdine has a secret — one that’s revealed on the first page of Martin Amis’s new novel, Lionel Asbo. The secret itself is pretty unthinkable, but it precipitates a crime so unthinkable that, once it’s happened, Desmond can’t think about it. All of which got me thinking about the secrets that run riot though Amis's whole oeuvre. Here's my Top 5.
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