Fuck You
I don’t like to use dashes
“[W]hat vexes me is that Albert does not seem to be as delighted as he—hoped—as I—thought I was—when—I don’t like to use dashes, but here I can’t express myself any other way— . . . .”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774; translated by Burton Pike, 2004.
Does Herbert Matter?
what is the world to our heart without love?
“Wilhelm, what is the world to our heart without love? What a magic lantern is without light! As soon as you put the little lamp inside, the most colorful pictures appear on your white wall!”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774; translated by Burton Pike, 2004.
Track Meet
the reds and greens, the yellows and blues
“On 11 December 361 I entered Constantinople as Roman Emperor. Snow fell at slow intervals and the great flakes turned like feathers in air so still that the day was almost warm. The sky was low and the color of tarnished silver. There was no color that day in nature, only in man, but what color! It was a day of splendor. . . .
Quite alone, I passed through the gate and took possession of the City of Constantine.
Trumpets sounded. The people cheered. I was particularly struck by the brightness of the clothes they wore. I don’t know whether it was the white setting which made the reds and greens, the yellows and blues almost unbearably vivid, or the fact that I had been away too long in northern countries where all colors are as muted and as dim as the forests in which the people live.”
—Gore Vidal, Julian, 1964.
I WANT TO BELIEVE
The Yes Men
Chamber Climate Hoax
IRAQ WAR ENDS
