From Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt, 1883
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From “Infinite Jest” DFW
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"What if in fact there were ever only like two really distinct individual people walking around back there in history's mist? That all difference descends from this difference? The whole and the partial. The damaged and the intact. The deformed and the paralyzingly beautiful. The insane and the attendant. The hidden and the blindingly open. The performer and the audience. No Zen-type One, always rather Two, one upside-down in a convex lens." (217)
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"That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness." (199)
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"Where is their straight shortest then, yes? Where is the efficiently quickly straight of Euclid then, yes? And how many two places are there without there is something in the way between them, if you go?" (79) (Schtitt)
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"It turns out the more luridly absorbing the angle of topic you choose, the more people have already been there before you with their footprints to fill and their obscurely academic-type-journal articles to try and absorb, and, like, synthesize." (1055) (footnote 304)
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"Marathe continued to hum the U.S.A. song, all over the map in terms of key." (107)
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Other Quotes
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"Tzu-ch'i said, 'The Great Clod belches out breath and its name is wind. So long as it doesn't come forth, nothing happens. But when it does, then ten thousand hollows begin crying wildly. Can't you hear them, long drawn out? In the mountain forests that lash and sway, there are huge trees a hundred spans around with hollows and openings like noses, like mouths, like ears, like jugs, like cups, like mortars, like rifts, like ruts. They roar like waves, whistle like arrows, screech, gasp, cry, wail, moan, and howl, those in the lead calling out YEEE!, those behind calling out YUUU! In a gentle breeze they answer faintly, but in a full gale the chorus is gigantic. And when the fierce wind has passed on, then all the hollows are empty again. Have you never seen the tossing and trembling that goes on?'" Chuang Tzu, "Discussion on Making All Things Equal"
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"What do you think: does it still all 'hang together?'" Tom Ashbrook, On Point interview
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"The ethics Siegel taught—'the art of enjoying justice'—includes this definition of good will: 'The desire to have something else stronger and more beautiful, for this desire makes oneself stronger and more beautiful.'" Wikipedia entry on Eli Siegel, author of "Hot Afternoons Have Been In Montana"
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"Proportion is very important to us, both in our minds and lives and as objectified visually, since it is thought, and feeling undivided, since it is unity and harmony, easy or difficult, and often peace and quiet." Donald Judd, "Art and Architecture," 1983
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"The camouflaged parrot, he flutters from fear/
When something he doesn't know about suddenly appears/
What cannot be imitated perfect must die/
Farewell Angelina, the sky is flooding over and I must go where it is dry" Bob Dylan, "Farewell Angelina"
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"Beyond physical repetition and the psychical or metaphysical repetition, is there an ontological repetition? . . . This ultimate repetition, this ultimate theatre, gathers everything in a certain way; and in another way, it destroys everything; and in yet another way, it selects from everything." Gilles Deleuze, trans. Judith Butler
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"I could swear I knew your love before I knew your name." Lucinda Williams, "Lovesick Blues"
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"Hills outside hills, gardens inside gardens" Chinese maxim
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"And the sea is just a wetter version of the skies." Regina Spektor, "Folding Chairs"
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"A haiku is like a vortex of energy; a haiku moment is a moment of absolute intensity in which the poet's grasp of his intuition is complete and the image he describes lives its own life. The art of haiku is to frame reality in a single instant that will lock the poet and the reader into sharing the same experience." 'The Little Book of Zen'
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"The fact that he has accidentally portrayed plant-forms when he was studying human evolution is an assurance to Mr. Betts of the fitness of the symbols he has developed, as it affords presumptive evidence that the laws he is studying intuitively admit of universal application." Louisa S. Cook, 'Geometrical Psychology, Or The Science of Representation: An Abstract of the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. Betts'
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