“Turtle blood has amazing healing powers. Mix with white wine when you are recovering.”

–Lunch guest today

November 23rd, 2006 | Life, Quote, St. Louis, Unbelievable | 5 comments

“Work that endures…is a mirror that reflects the reader’s own traits and it is also a map of the world…As long as an author merely relates events or traces the slight deviations of a conscience, we can suppose him to be omniscient…but when he descends to the level of pure reason, we know he is fallible. Reality is inferred from events, not reasoning; we permit God to affirm ‘I am that I am’, not to declare and analyze, like Hegel or Anselm.”

–Jorge Louis Borges, “The First Wells” (Borges: A Reader, 172)

October 4th, 2006 | Quote | No comments