Let none think that I by tear or reproach make light Of this manifesting the mastery Of God, who with excelling irony Gives me at once both books and night. In this city of books he made these eyes The sightless rulers who can only read, In libraries of dreams, the pointless Paragraphs each new [...]
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Poem about Gifts :: J. L. Borges
Posted in Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Poetry, tagged Borges, Dreamtigers, Jorge Luis Borges, Poetry on January 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A Hero for Our Time :: Walter Kirn explains the lasting appeal of Lebowski’s Dude
Posted in Movies, tagged Article, Coen Brothers, Comedy, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, movie, Rolling Stone, The Big Lebowski on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In 1998, when the Dude shuffled into the nation’s movie theaters wearing a bathrobe, slurping White Russians and licking the residue of 10,000 joints from the fringes of his filthy mustache, there was no way for us to know what he’d become: the first, most convincing cinematic superhero for an age of quagmire and stalemate. [...]
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