...the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion. Every reading prolongs another, begun in some afternoon thousands of years ago and of which we know nothing; every re...
The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using English or just a few other languages, appears not to have stopped any wars, nor to have reduced the frequency with which...
How many Lojbanists does it take to change a broken light-bulb?” goes the old Lojban joke. “Two: one to decide what to change it into and one to decide what kind of bulb emits broken light.
Each language is a unique repository of facts and knowledge about the world that we can ill afford to lose, or, at the least, facts and knowledge about some history and people that have their place in the understanding of mankind. Every language is a...
O my God, how does it happen in this poor world that you are so great and yet nobody finds you, that you call so loudly and yet nobody hears you, that you are so near and yet nobody feels you, that you give yourself to everybody and yet nobody knows ...
[I] would argue that native-born blacks are so vastly less "African" than actual Africans that calling ourselves 'African American' is not only illogical but almost disrespectful to African immigrants. Here are people who were born in Africa, speak A...
Don't be a thief and you won't fear the king.
Even the king does not dine twice.
Hunger is felt by a slave and hunger is felt by a king.
Hunger is felt by slave and king alike.
A thief is a king until he is caught.
In the valley where there are no tigers the hare is king.
The bone given to you by the king is meat.
A big chair does not make a king.
A farmer should not ride the king's horse.
Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.
I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't sit well in my mouth. One of my beefs is the patriarchal setup. Having the 'he, he, he, God, God, God, king, king, king' stu...
Dreams are manifestations of identities.
Masanga: Hallo Nicholas! Welcome to the president's car!
A king's son is no nobler than his company.
A man without a child is a king without sorrows.
