“History to the defeated doesn’t even say “alas,” it just cuts them dead.” ~ Ferdinand Mount
Nietzsche and Schopenhauer
“When Nietzsche was in trouble, he would find a portrait of Schopenhauer and shout, “Save me, Shopenhauer.””
Daily Quote – Wendell Berry
“I’ve known writers — I think it’s true also of other artists — who thought that you had to put your art before everything. But if you have a marriage and a family and a farm, you’re just going to find that you can’t always put your art first, and moreover that you shouldn’t. There are a number of things more important than your art. It’s wrong to favor it over your family, or over your place, or over your animals.”
Daily Quote – Shigeru Ban
“Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.”
Reading Through Someone Else’s Eyes
What did Keats think of Milton? Shakespeare of Ovid? The imperfect, rewarding, highly conjectural art of reading as someone else.
Reading through someone else’s eyes by Brad Leithauser (The New Yorker)
Daily Quote – J.R.R. Tolkien
“I am in fact a hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands. I smoke a pipe, like good, plain food, detest French cooking … I am fond of mushrooms, have a very simple sense of humor … go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much.”
Daily Quote – Marcel Duchamp
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
Daily Quote ― A.C. Grayling
“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person’s broad mind and narrow waist change places.”
Communiqué 
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