June 2010
1 post
“As incomprehensible as it may seem, I have somehow spent more than two hundred...”
– Tom Bissell, Extra Lives
May 2010
18 posts
“We exposed college students to suggestive materials in order to lead them to...”
– Shari R. Berkowitz, Cara Laney, and Erin K. Morris (University of California, Irvine), Maryanne Garry (Victoria University of Wellington), and Elizabeth F. Loftus (University of California, Irvine), “Pluto Behaving Badly: False Beliefs and Their Consequences.” Cited by William Saletan,...
“Autun, still as a churchyard. Tile roofs, dark with moss. The amphitheater. The...”
– James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime
“The judge smiled and wished them both good luck. The lawyers sagged with relief,...”
– John Updike, “Here Come the Maples.”
“[My father] and I never seemed to be in rapport: Our basic assumptions were very...”
– Saul Bellow, in a letter to Martin Amis dated March 13, 1996, as published in The New Yorker (April 26, 2010).
“To the house nurse, who complains that Caroline’s and Baby John’s...”
– Vaughn Meader, The First Family, a comedy record, as quoted in Time (November 30, 1962). (Via David Folkenflik)
“Question: Why are there no public restrooms? Answer: According to oral...”
– One of three “Frequently Asked Questions” posted on the National Park Service website for Grant’s Tomb.
“Critical work that has attempted to explain the experience of geographical and...”
– Adam Wheeler, Mappings, Unmappings, and Remappings, a supposed “work in progress” described in the curriculum vitae he submitted to The New Republic.
“For the 58 spots in which the study was able to identify the creative team, 92%...”
– Kuner Patel, “Study Finds Super Bowl Ad Creators are Overwhelmingly White and Male” (Advertising Age, May 10, 2010)
“Walking in the wind, Josey says “My breasts / are like martinis” and...”
– Jill McDonough, “Breasts Like Martinis”
“I wish we could sell them another hill at the same price.”
– General Nathanael Greene on the Battle of Bunker Hill, as quoted in History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. Also an Account of the Bunker Hill Monument. With Illustrative Documents. By Richard Frothingham
“Black on flat water past the jonquil lawns
Riding, the black swan draws...”
– James Merrill, “The Black Swan”
“Our Jeb Stuart is never tired. You could wake him with a message any time of...”
– Barry Hannah, “Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed”
“Athens, after all, is a city in which 364 people told tax authorities they owned...”
– Anne Applebaum, “Greece and the New Colonialism”
“Sordid is really a mild word for its pile-up of gross indecencies… It is...”
– Bosley Crowther, reviewing Breathless, as quoted in “An Ideal for Living” by Geoffrey O’Brien (Film Comment, Vol. 46, No. 3)
“Let’s just say the table was too large, that we lifted the heaviest dish /...”
– Kim Van Voorhees, “Sea Level”
“William Gass, in his 1995 novel “The Tunnel,” jokes that if Americans ever had a...”
– James Wood, “Tocqueville in America”
“Employee conduct that is outside the scope of employment and is undertaken...”
– “Frolic and Detour,” as defined by Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
