- Election night montage(s) - Vox
 Nov 17, 2008 2:50am  (3 reviews) usa http://campvancouver.vox.com/library/pos...
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
- a Greek proverb
- Selecting A Reader - Ted Kooser
- Nov 17, 2008 2:35am
 (2 reviews) poetry http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/ted...
Selecting a Reader
First, I would have her be beautiful,
and walking carefully up on my poetry
at the loneliest moment of an afternoon,
her hair still damp at the neck
from washing it. She should be wearing
a raincoat, an old one, dirty
from not having money enough for the cleaners.
She will take out her glasses, and there
in the bookstore, she will thumb
over my poems, then put the book back
up on its shelf. She will say to herself,
"For that kind of money, I can get
my raincoat cleaned." And she will.
{ Ted Koosner }
- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Jorge_Luis_Borges_1963.png
- Nov 17, 2008 12:47am (1 review) photography, borges http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:...
- Nov 17, 2008 12:44am
Penelope did this too.
- Nov 17, 2008 12:44am
- And, some you just give away.
- Unreported World - Philippines Dirty War* 2008 11 14 (Ch. 4) Torrent...
- Nov 16, 2008 10:19am (1 review) philippines, dog-eat-dog, vicious-cycle, third-world-nation, no-hope http://onebigtorrent.org/torrents/4232/U...
Yes We Can Maybe We Might.
- [minstrels] Sometimes it Happens -- Brian Patten
- Nov 10, 2008 9:32am (6 reviews) poetry http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels...
And sometimes it happens that you are friends and then
You are not friends,
And friendship has passed.
And whole days are lost and among them
A fountain empties itself.
- Barack Obama still has time for a little poetry - Telegraph
- Nov 9, 2008 11:15am (2 reviews) poetry http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopi...
- From the page: "Three days after winning the presidential election, Barack Obama was spotted in Chicago carrying a book of poems by Derek Walcott, the West Indies Nobel laureate."
All politics aside, I love this: that "spotted carrying a book of poems" is notable is enough, but it's really the thought of a person making room for poetry in his life, so much that he carries a book of poems around, never mind the weight of it (hey, at least books have spines), that really gets me.
- RealPoetik: Tao Lin
- Nov 9, 2008 10:23am (4 reviews) poetry http://realpoetik.blogspot.com/2007/07/t...
"i will learn how to love a person and then i will teach you and then we will know"
by tao lin
- Socrates (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Nov 9, 2008 9:23am (5 reviews) classical-studies http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrat...
When a patient drinks medicine on his doctor's orders, it is because he wants health, not because he wants to drink the medicine. Socrates says that we always want what is good, all human acts are directed toward what is good. Provided we know what it is to be good. Everything we do in life is either good, bad, or neutral and to take the medicine is a neutral act; the ends justify the means. We do things we wouldn't necessarily want to do if they act as stepping stones to the things we do want, to the good things. Socrates says there is a difference between doing what we want and doing what we please. The patient won't drink the medicine because the taste displeases him -- it pleases him to not drink the medicine. But in making this decision, his health deteriorates. It is an irrational decision, based on an ignorance of the all too temporary nature of pleasure.
When I stay in bed all day instead of going to work, I do so because I lie awake and stare at the ceiling even when my alarm clock rings for the second time, because I am tired, because it makes me safe not to get up and face the cruelty of the world outside my bed, because it pleases me to pull the blanket up to my chin and curl back into sleep, back into the pleasure of my daydreams. Well, Socrates doesn't care. He says, "Klassy, if you persist in doing what you please, you will never get what you want."
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