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"I watched that big Oregon prairie moon above me put all the stars around it to shame."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:52:30 -0700

““I watched that big Oregon prairie moon above me put all the stars around it to shame.””

- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:44:00 -0700

"It was a splendid morning too. Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:51:55 -0700

““It was a splendid morning too. Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck straight through the streets.””

- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:20:00 -0700

"It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety..."

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:57:44 -0700

““It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.””

- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818

Gouda, turkey, heirloom tomato and kale with garlic mustard....

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:51:00 -0700

Gouda, turkey, heirloom tomato and kale with garlic mustard. Happy National Grilled Cheese Day!

"I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader..."

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:58:56 -0700

““I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.””

- Flannery O’Connor

Cambria, California

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:24:27 -0700

Cambria, California

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:23:16 -0700

Cambria, California

(at Cambria Pines Lodge)

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:17:00 -0700

(at Cambria Pines Lodge)

Salzburg, Austria

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:29:11 -0700

Salzburg, Austria

"Perhaps you will learn from this that books are sacred to free men for very good reasons, and that..."

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:26:23 -0700

““Perhaps you will learn from this that books are sacred to free men for very good reasons, and that wars have been fought against nations which hate books and burn them. If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.””

- Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday

Heidelberg.

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:21:41 -0700

Heidelberg.

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:20:00 -0700

Heidelberg.

"…Bevel’s eyes followed drowsily the slow circles of two silent birds revolving high in..."

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:25:00 -0700

““…Bevel’s eyes followed drowsily the slow circles of two silent birds revolving high in the air. Across the river there was a low red and gold grove of sassafras with hills of dark blue trees behind it and an occasional pine jutting over the skyline. Behind, in the distance, the city rose like a cluster of warts on the side of the mountain. The birds revolved downward and dropped lightly in the top of the highest pine and sat hunch-shouldered as if they were supporting the sky.””

- Flannery O’Connor, “The River”

Bavarian countryside.

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:20:47 -0700

Bavarian countryside.

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:20:05 -0700

Bavarian countryside.

"Capitalism is the only way, Leslie. It’s what makes America great. And England okay and France..."

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:54:53 -0700

“Capitalism is the only way, Leslie. It’s what makes America great. And England okay and France terrible.”

- Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation (via nbcparksandrec)

"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is luminous halo, a semi-transparent..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:14:30 -0700

““Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.””

- Virginia Woolf

"It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle..."

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:21:34 -0700

““It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.””

- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises