Persons [ ] The business of man is to be happy | John Locke, 1632-1704
Godfrey Kneller, Portrait of John Locke, 1697 “What worries you masters you.” “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of...
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Alphabetarion # Redistribute | David Harvey, 2005
Francesco Merlini, The Flood, 2021 “The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth...
On [:] Save | Kurt Vonnegut, 2005
Matt Groening, Kang and Kodos,The Simpsons, 1990 “The good Earth - we could have saved it, but we were too...
The Ghost Sonata | August Strindberg, 1907
Ghost Sonata - Director: Greg Eldridge, Opera Australia, 2019 "Student: A Sunday child, you said – I was born on...
On [:] More | Ernesto Che Guevara, 1928-1967
Anna Kövecses “The life of a single human being is worth millions of timesmore than all the property of the...
On Writing ~ Story is everything | Martin McDonagh, 1970-
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin, 2022 "Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about...
Alphabetarion # Kind | Jonathan Coe, 1990
Nude woman walking a Greyhound, Hagenauer style Austria, c.1935 “Some people don't realize that a straight 'No'can be the kindest...
Days [ ) Test | Salvador Dalí, 1954
Salvador Dalí, 1939 “Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.However,...
Thoughts on { Destruction | Walter Benjamin / Kurt Vonnegut / Aldous Huxley / Léon Bloy / Arthur Schopenhauer / William Blake / André Gide
Paul Klee, Berg-Landschaft, 1938 “Man could not both know and succumb. Meantime huge smoking cities arose, innumerable. Green leaves shrank...
Book//mark – Oedipus Tyrannus | Sophocles, c 429 BC
Hermann Nitsch, Oedipus , 1990 “Oedipus: (looking up at the sun)'LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT never again flood these eyes with your...