When we watch the televised funerals of Michael Jackson or Ted Kennedy, Leader suggests, we are engaging in a practice that goes back to soldiers in the Iliad mourning with Achilles for the fallen Patroclus. Our version is more mediated. Still, in the Internet age, some mourners have returned grief to a social space, creating [...]
Category Archives: Long Quote
so, look out
April 19, 2009 – 5:14 am
The Fat Boy Burger is half pound hamburger, Norwegian cheese, bacon, fried egg, mayonnaise, catsup, tomato, lettuce and I’m not sure if there’s avocado on there but I’m going to put avocado on there too, and then a whole plate of French fries on the side. And I have thought a lot about that Fat [...]
January 20, 2009 – 5:33 pm
With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon [...]
Pronunciation
January 14, 2008 – 3:14 am
I remember a day in class when he leaned far forward, in his characteristic pose — the pose of a man about to impart a secret — and croaked, “If you don’t know how to pronounce a word, say it loud! If you don’t know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!” This comical [...]
Where the self resides
November 5, 2007 – 5:10 am
“We are no longer able to distinguish when we are together and nurtured and when we are alone and isolated. I can be in intimate contact with 300 people on e-mail, but when I look up from my computer I feel bereft. I haven’t heard a voice, touched a hand, for hours or days. I [...]
Useful or beautiful
September 21, 2007 – 12:38 am
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
