The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Mail

I also worried that learning how to use e-mail would be like learning how to program our VCR, an unsuccessful project that had confirmed what excellent judgment we had shown in not purchasing a car, etc.
Anne Fadiman, At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

Reminds me of my old-fashioned self. I enjoy hand-written letters over emails. I don't text: I call. I prefer walking close distances: I'm terrified of public transportation. I dislike fast food: I cook. And yet I'm typing on this intangible page with a machine whose technology I know so little about. 

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