ACTUAL BEING
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October 25, 2008
continued from
October 25, 2008
"The only wealth he bestowed on his subjects lay in the richness of his descriptive language, the detailed fineness of which won him comparisons with painters like Vermeer and Andrew Wyeth."
— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in today's International Herald Tribune |
"These people have discovered how to turn dreams into reality. They know how to enter their dream realities. They can stay there, live there, perhaps forever."
— Alfred Bester on the inmates of Ward T in his 1953 short story, "Disappearing Act"
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"Is Nothing Sacred?" |
When? Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler. Where?
— Ulysses, conclusion of Episode 17 |
Happy Feast of
St. Thomas Aquinas.