“Be on the lookout for
Annie Dillard’s sequel to
Teaching a Stone to Talk, titled
Teaching a Brick to Sing.”
William Butler Yeats —
“Poets and Wits about him drew;
‘What then?’ sang Plato’s ghost.
‘What then?’
‘The work is done,’
grown old he thought,
‘According to my boyish plan;
Let the fools rage,
I swerved in naught,
Something to perfection brought’;
But louder sang that ghost,
‘What then?’“
Duet Scarlett Johansson — “Let’s give ’em somethin’ (Saturday Night Live, Plato’s ghost — “The clothes she wears, She’s a brick… house… Shake it down, |