“The risk you take has a feedback effect on the unconscious,” he says. “The unconscious will give you ideas and it wants you to act on them. The more courage you have when you act, the more ideas it will give you.”
A woman "of a certain age" with a certain attitude writes for others of similar persuasion. Men allowed.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Here, Have A Death Cookie
Possibly the most engaging thing I have read in months. And I read a lot.
Malcolm X Redux
There's a new book I'd really like to read, but the author's story is remarkable as well.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Should We Read Susan Sontag?
Maybe not. Maybe read about her instead.
“She had the death that somewhere she must have come to believe that other people had from cancer,” Rieff writes, “the death where knowledge meant nothing, the will to fight meant nothing, the skill of the doctors meant nothing.”