Thoughts on { Taxi | Allen Ginsberg / Elizabeth Bowen / Haruki Murakami / Graham Greene / J.G. Ballard / F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ryo Takemasa, Taxi, New York, 2011 "If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a...
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Thoughts on { Shame | John Milton / William Blake / Dante Alighieri / Aristotle / William Shakespeare / Victor Hugo / Sophocles
Peanuts "Where shame is, there is also fear." John Milton "Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit." Seneca the...
Thoughts on { Flirt | Victor Hugo / Milan Kundera / Ivan Turgenev / Marjane Satrapi / Charlotte Brontë
Leo Gestel, The flirtation (An Gestel and the violonist Dirk Gootjes), 1910 “Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without...
Thoughts on { Consciousness | Paul Bowles / Virginia Woolf / Rabindranath Tagore
Johan Thorn Prikker, Les Xhorres, 1900-1904 “There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the...
Thoughts on { Masturbation | Chuck Palahniuk / Sigmund Freud / Clive Barker / Karl Marx / John Lennon / Inga Muscio
D. Hayes, Three flowers from different varieties of pelargonium species, 1842 "Self improvement is masturbation." Chuck Palahniuk "The only shame...
Thoughts on { Classical Music | Victor Borge, 1909-2000
Laetitia Devernay, The Conductor "The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold." "The difference between a violin and a...
Thoughts on { Language | Martin Walser, 1927-2023
Joan Miro, Woman, Star, 1942 "People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in...
Thoughts on { Cookies | Cookie Monster, 2018
Jim Henson, Cookie Monster, Wheel-Stealer, 1966 “Home is where heart is. Heart where cookie is. Math clear: Home is cookie.”...
Thoughts on { The teapot | Lewis Carroll / Bram Stoker / Virginia Woolf / Charles Dickens / Nikolai Gogol / Saki / William Makepeace Thackeray
Claes Oldenburg, Tea Pot, 1975 "This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great...
Thoughts on { Emotions | Timothy Leary, 1968
Burgoyne Diller (1906-1965) “Emotions are the lowest form of consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, narrowing, dangerous form of...