Last October I received The Professor and the Madman as a present. I’ve recently finished it, so here are, the last lines:
From Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
What is a life? A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but that cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain. That’s all life
Thoughts for a Thursday: Please Read!
Recently our block had a neighborhood cookout, and I found out one of my neighbors is actually a children’s book author/illustrator. This was incredibly exciting for me, as I’ve been mulling over an idea for a children’s book since a
Starting Today: The Famished Road by Ben Okri
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
Thoughts for a Thursday from An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
It is, thus, discontinuities, the great discontinuities in life, that we seek to bridge, or reconcile, or integrate, by recollection, and, beyond this, by myth and art.