"Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation. The people I admire are those blokes in Fair Isle sweaters with pencils behind their ears who knew how to design mechanical things better than anybody else in the world."

Hugh Laurie


(meu blog oficialmente virou um repositório de citações não necessariamente iluminadoras, como mil outros por aí. tudo bem. tenho outras prioridades.)

platitudes supostas...

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

Atribuído a Bertrand Russell.

este post não é auto-referencial e nem metalingüístico no âmbito do blog

"É isso precisamente que estamos fazendo aqui. Estamos confrontando uma forma de linguagem com seu ambiente, ou transformando-a na imaginação a fim de obter uma visão panorâmica do espaço em que a estrutura da nossa linguagem se coloca."

L.W.

joyce metafórico as opposed to metonímico

"what special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?

her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising, and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible."