The New Yorker, 2007-06-04
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fiefoe"At the Museums: Creature Feature" / Adam Gopnik
__ The kappa, a Japanese freshwater gremlin who pulls children to their doom, but who can be defeated by a well-timed bow; courteous to the end, the kappa will always bow back, spilling a little bowl of empowering water that sits on top of its head and forcing its retreat.
"The Man in the Hut" / David Sedaris
__ Grand Mutilated Person... It's a much stronger word than "wounded" or "handicapped," and I imagine that, if we used it in the United States, enlistment in the volunteer Army would fall by at least half.
"When I’m Sixty-four" / John Colapinto
__ He said that Lennon also could not read or write music. "Someone once told us that Egyptian pharaohs couldn't read or write - they had scribes to put down their thoughts. So John and I used to say, 'We're like the pharaohs!'"
__ The melody to "Yesterday" came to McCartney in a dream. He brought it to Lennon, unfinished, with nonsense lyrics as a place holder: "Scrambled eggs, oh my, baby, how I love your legs."
'I Saw Her Standing There'
'If I Fell'
'Here, There and Everywhere'
'Paperback Writer'
Anthony Lane: the belief that responsibility is a fine and terrible thing
Nietzsche: We have art so that we shall not be destroyed by the truth.
Duckie Brown
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__ The kappa, a Japanese freshwater gremlin who pulls children to their doom, but who can be defeated by a well-timed bow; courteous to the end, the kappa will always bow back, spilling a little bowl of empowering water that sits on top of its head and forcing its retreat.
"The Man in the Hut" / David Sedaris
__ Grand Mutilated Person... It's a much stronger word than "wounded" or "handicapped," and I imagine that, if we used it in the United States, enlistment in the volunteer Army would fall by at least half.
"When I’m Sixty-four" / John Colapinto
__ He said that Lennon also could not read or write music. "Someone once told us that Egyptian pharaohs couldn't read or write - they had scribes to put down their thoughts. So John and I used to say, 'We're like the pharaohs!'"
__ The melody to "Yesterday" came to McCartney in a dream. He brought it to Lennon, unfinished, with nonsense lyrics as a place holder: "Scrambled eggs, oh my, baby, how I love your legs."
'I Saw Her Standing There'
'If I Fell'
'Here, There and Everywhere'
'Paperback Writer'
Anthony Lane: the belief that responsibility is a fine and terrible thing
Nietzsche: We have art so that we shall not be destroyed by the truth.
Duckie Brown
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