August 2012
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“I
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea green boat,...”
– The Owl and the Pussycat
Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/pussy.html
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“Cold are the crabs that crawl on yonder hills,
Colder the cucumbers that grow...”
– Cold are the Crabs
Edward Lear
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cold-are-the-crabs/
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“Davis v. The Commonwealth ofAustralia (1988) 166 C.LR 79, per Mason C.J.,...”
– The Proper: Discourses of Purity (p. 160, fn. 45)
Margaret Davies
Law and Critique, Vol IX, No. 2 [1998]
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“A ‘shibboleth’, the word ‘shibboleth’ , if it is one,...”
– Shibboleth for Paul Celan
In ‘Sovereignties in Question’ (2005, p.26)
Jacques Derrida
Fordham University Press, Thomas Dutoit and Outi Pasanen, eds.
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“Todas las cosas del mundo tienen un “sentido propio”. Cada piedra, cada brizna...”
– Hermann Hesse (via rojosangre)
[All things in the world have a “proper sense”. Every stone, every blade of grass, every flower, every bush and animal grows, lives, works and feels as its “self”, and that is that the world is good, varied and beautiful]
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“Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to...”
– David Belle
(on parkour)
http://tracer8.blog.com/2009/10/13/parkour-quotes/
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“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so...”
– Worpswede (1903)
Rilke
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“There is apparently no moment in which a decision can be presently and fully...”
– Jacques Derrida
“Force of Law: ‘The Mystical Foundation of Authority’ “, in Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, edited by Drucilla Cornell and Michael Rosenfeld, (New York: Routlege, 1992), p. 24.
(Ref. http://facta.junis.ni.ac.rs/pas/pas98/pas98-03.pdf)
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“I wouldn’t make a hasty decision. Nobody can make a snap decision....”
– Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
dir. Nicholas Ray
(Frank Stark)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048545/
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“Please don’t get up.
Nobody’s going to get up, so don’t get...”
– A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski
dir. Elia Kazan
Tennessee Williams (screen play) and Oscar Saul (adaptation)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044081/quotes
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“I remember you as you were in the last autumn.
You were the grey beret and the...”
– I remember You as You Were
Pablo Neruda
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-remember-you-as-you-were/
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“With astonishment Aschenbach noticed that the boy was entirely beautiful. His...”
– Death in Venice
Thomas Mann
(1875-1955), German author, critic. originally published in “Die Neue Rundschau” 23, Oct. and Nov. 1912. Death in Venice, ch. 3, p. 216, trans. by David Luke, Bantam Classic (1988).
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“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties,...”
– Hamlet
Act 2, scene 2, 303–312
Shakespeare
http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/what-piece-work-man
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“Thus with the Year [ 40 ]
Seasons return, but not to me returns
Day, or the...”
– Paradise Lost
Book 3 (extract)
John Milton
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“Vous avez bien la face desouverte; moi je suis tout face.
(You have your face...”
– Michael Eyquen de Montaigne
Essays (vol. I, ch XXXV), answer of a naked beggar who was asked whether he was not cold
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“The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.”
– Henry Moore
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“Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.”
– Auguste Rodin
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/sculpture_2.html
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“People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the...”
– St Augustine
http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/724
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“The broadening waters flowed through a mob of wooded islands; you lost your way...”
– The Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/327422-going-up-that-river-was-like-travelling-back-to-the
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“Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song,
Sweet Thames, run softly, for I...”
– The Wasteland
(The Fire Sermon - extract)
T.S. Eliot
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“No window in his suburb lights that bedroom where
A little fever heard large...”
– The Quest (extract)
IV. The Traveler
Auden
http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/wh-auden/the-quest-5/
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“The water understands
Civilization well;
It wets my foot, but prettily,
It...”
– Water
Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/184637
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“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”
– The Immense Journey, 1957
Loran Eisely
http://jperret.tripod.com/water.html
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