March 2012
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“It’s a fun digression to look at the numbers involved to get a sense of...”
– Rishidev Chaudhuri and Jason Merrill, “Entropy - A Primer”, 3quarksdaily (go on, bend your brain some)
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“The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved,...”
– Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (possibly the best hangover description ever, courtesy of Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
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WatchSharon van Etten and Shearwater? Covering Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks? Good luck topping this, AV Club.
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WatchOh, just release this album already.
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“The advice I give my students is the same advice I give myself—forget...”
– Marilynne Robinson, “Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred”, The Chronicle of Higher Education (I just keep finding more!)
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“My point is that lacking the terms of religion, essential things cannot be said....”
– Marilynne Robinson, “A Common Faith”, Guernica (one of the few writers whose every sentence resonates with me completely. I can’t wait for the new essay collection, from which this one is excerpted.)
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“For consumers, to embrace such products was to embrace the higher spirit of...”
– Evgeny Morozov, “Form and Fortune”, The New Republic (a fantastic dissection of Jobs’s core tenets - this particular observation certainly necessitated some ruminating on my part)
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“I have a precise, tactile memory of the first Oz book that came into my hands....”
– Gore Vidal, “John Cotter on Gore Vidal”, Open Letters Monthly (substitute The Lord of the Rings for The Emerald City (and Middle-Earth for Oz) and this was my childhood) 