Quote for Today: Douglas Adams
“The difficulty with this conversation,” said Arthur after a sort of pondering look had crawled slowly across his face like a mountaineer negotiating a tricky outcrop, “is that it’s very …
Quote for Today: Ian McEwan
He’s never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat. ―Ian McEwan, Saturday
The Depths of Nonverbal Conversation: Marina Abramović’s The Artist is Present
Art and conversation contain elements that evade language and communicate on a different level. How do these elements reach us? Marina Abramović is one of the world’s most famous performance artists. …
Quote for Today: Dan Chaon
I’ve been talking to myself a lot lately. I don’t know what that’s about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to make small talk with other people, …
Quote for Today: Garth Stein
I’m a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. …
Quote for Today: Dorothy L. Sayers
A man once asked me… how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member …
Quote for Today: Martin Louis Amis
My theory is we don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand …
there are mermaids
This is a beautiful, poetic reblog from my friend Tony at t h i n g s + f l e s h. It really captures for me the essence …
Quote for Today: Pablo Picasso
Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only …
Play of Shadows: Two Forms of Asian Shadow Theater and Their Descendants
In much of Asia there is a tradition of shadow theater, also called shadow puppetry or shadow play, an ancient art in which characters are fashioned from leather or paper …