From Edward Albee’s play The Zoo Story ( 1958 ):
Jerry:
…it’s just that if you can’t deal with people, you have to make a start somewhere. WITH ANIMALS! Don’t you see? A person has to have some way of dealing with SOMETHING…with pornographic playing cards, with a strongbox…WITHOUT A LOCK…with love, with vomiting, with crying, with [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Bread & Puppet Theater
Posted in shiny things, tagged 1984, art, bread, Bread & Puppet, business, cheap, hurrah, manifesto, pain, sky, stupidity, theater, theatre, tree, vermont, war on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
the WHY CHEAP ART? manifesto
PEOPLE have been THINKING too long that ART is a PRIVILEGE of the MUSEUMS & the RICH. ART IS NOT BUSINESS! It does not belong to banks & fancy investors. ART IS FOOD. You can’t EAT it BUT it FEEDS you. ART has to be CHEAP & available to EVERYBODY. It [...]
Welcome to a commonplace book.
Posted in shiny things, tagged 1950, acceptance, creative, faulkner, man, NObel, poet, prize, speech, william, write, writer on August 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is mine. Hopefully you can find things here that move you as they have moved me. Here’s the first:
William Faulkner’s 1950 Nobel Acceptance Speech
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work — a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not [...]
An unfitting companion.
Posted in shiny things, tagged art, Dave, Eggers, flight, loneliness, lonely, love, meaning, solitary, thought, write on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From one of my favorite stories:
LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I haven’t long to live.
TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: That’s probably true.
LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: I won’t even make it to the sea. I can already see where I’ll end.
TREETOPS, ROUNDED AND ROUGH: I don’t know what to tell you.
LOW-FLYING, QUICK-MOVING CLOUDS: But the thing is, I really love [...]
