The New Yorker, 2008-01-07
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fiefoe"Dept of Labor: Strike Beards" / Ben McGrath
__ the "thesis beard" (a mutant cousin.. is the "neck beard", grown sometimes during final exams.)
Elizabeth Kolbert: a "vulnerability study" commissioned by his staff noted that Guiliani's "personal life raises questions about a 'weirdness factor'
"Guinea-Pigging" / Carl Elliott
__ Guinea pigs do not do things in exchange for money so much as they allow things to be done to them. There are not many other jobs where that is the case.
"Mystery On Pearl Street" / Burkhard Bilger
__Shakespeare, we are told, is the best-selling poet of all time. Second is Lao-tuzu. Third is Kahlil Gibran. {i.e. 纪伯伦!}
__ "Oh Glorious Kahlil!!" she wrote in her diary. "Transcendent, timeless spirit!"
__ If you look closely, though, you will see that much of the time he is saying something specific; namely, that everything is everything else... They appeal not only by their seeming correction of conventional wisdom but also by their hypnotic power, their negation of rational processes.
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__ the "thesis beard" (a mutant cousin.. is the "neck beard", grown sometimes during final exams.)
Elizabeth Kolbert: a "vulnerability study" commissioned by his staff noted that Guiliani's "personal life raises questions about a 'weirdness factor'
"Guinea-Pigging" / Carl Elliott
__ Guinea pigs do not do things in exchange for money so much as they allow things to be done to them. There are not many other jobs where that is the case.
"Mystery On Pearl Street" / Burkhard Bilger
- (The best reclaimed wood:) The wood was Southern longleaf pine, four inches thick and heavy with resin. It had twenty growth rings to the inch... and felt hard as oak. When I'd sanded an doiled it, the wood glowed a deep amber and looked nearly translucent.
- the Center for the History of Mertic Philosophy and Related Currents, at the University of Amsterdam ("Hogwarts for postgrads", he called it.)
- Liberty bonds / Bartleby-like
- His slender frame had an elegant slouch to it, like the stem of a clay pipe.
__Shakespeare, we are told, is the best-selling poet of all time. Second is Lao-tuzu. Third is Kahlil Gibran. {i.e. 纪伯伦!}
__ "Oh Glorious Kahlil!!" she wrote in her diary. "Transcendent, timeless spirit!"
__ If you look closely, though, you will see that much of the time he is saying something specific; namely, that everything is everything else... They appeal not only by their seeming correction of conventional wisdom but also by their hypnotic power, their negation of rational processes.
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