On [:] Happiness | William Lyon Phelps, 1927 / Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967
Jamie Wyeth, Bathtub, 1965 “The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use...
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On [:] Telescope | Josh Billings, 1818-85
Ōta Chōu, Women Watching Stars, 1936 “Love looks through a telescope;envy, through a microscope.” Josh Billings, 1818-85
On [:] Loneliness | Anton Chekhov, 1892-1904
Walter Deverell, The Mock Marriage of Orlando and Rosalind, 1853 “If you are afraid of loneliness,don't marry.” Anton Chekhov, 1892-1904,...
On [:] Argument | Thomas Hobbes, 1651
Franco Matticchio, 2006 “Silence is sometimes an argument of consent.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651 Also:Silence is more eloquent than words...
On [:] Fawn | Homer, c 660 BCE
Maggie Cole “A baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up,and she tugs on her skirts, holding her...
On [:] Seek | Jean Baudrillard, 1980-85
Jan Frans Verhas, Hide and seek, 1855-96 “One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the...
On [:] Absence | Alejandro Zambra, 2014
Roger Duvoisin, At Daddy's Office, 1946 “Everyone fakes their absence.Old friends, enemies, or loverscould be in the same elevatorand never...
On [:] Bliss | Sylvia Plath, 1932-63
John Nash, The Viaduct, c 1916 “On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable...
On [:] April Fool | Rhyme
Marc Johns, Half of a fish costume April Fool, go to school,Tell your mother you’re a fool! April Fool’s a-coming...
On [:] The Metaphysics of Chocolates | Alvaro de Campos, 1928
Sigmar Polke “Eat your chocolates, little girl,Eat your chocolates!Believe me, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates,And all religions put...