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oies on Flickr - Photo Sharing!: May 6, 1:57pm 0 review
http://www.flickr.com/photos/taffeta/2465220597/

FIRST THINGS: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life: May 5, 12:43pm 1 review
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=6156; From the page: "To the living, we owe respect; to the dead, only truth," Voltaire once opined. It's a good line: high-minded, confident, ｭsententious in the way only enlightened French philosophes could manage with any aplomb. But it also feels exactly backward, particularly about those we knew and loved. To squabble with our vanished ｭparents about how they lived their lives seems more than a metaphysical nullity. It is, in fact, a moral failing."

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"It's as though our authors have all been forced to absorb something as exquisite as, say, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a book of semi-mystical nature observation that's been mandatory at writers' workshops for years. And once an author's been annie-dillardized, the prose gets finer and finer, and the subject gets smaller and smaller. In a column for the Wall Street Journal, I once described Alice Munro--whose collection of stories, The Love of a Good Woman, had just won the National Book Critics Circle award--as having a prose so fine it can barely lift anything heavier than a small cup of tea. There's a description of a china cupboard in her story "Cortes Island," for instance, so beautifully detailed and so profoundly pointless that it has to be read to be believed."

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"The American memoirs from the middle of the twentieth century were still story-driven, or, at least, anecdote-driven--still confident enough in the completeness of the universe to assume that narrative is a motor by which truth can run. The newer memoirs are detail-driven instead. They have their own set of moral certainties, of course: some worse, and some better, than their predecessors'. Their prose, however, always tends to convey events with floods of particular circumstance rather than a storyline--using details like a great and inarticulate ocean, throwing wave after wave of sharply observed fact against the shore in the hope of washing down to sea a stranded meaning.

And why exactly shouldn't we use this technique? Indeed, how could we use any other, these days? Details exist, in a way that stories don't, apart from moral judgment. They swim beneath the messy world of virtue and vice, down in the clear, clean waters of the purely physical, as though what confronts us in memory is not the assailant's pistol but merely molecules of blued steel arranged by some chance in a ｭdeadly way.

If stories are just about stories and contingent facts just about contingent facts--if, in other words, the moral order of meaningful narrative and the physical order of pure information can no longer be truthfully aligned--then honest writers have a responsibility to speak about only the fine details. "

狩野文庫画像データベース画像一覧: Apr 28, 9:26am 0 review library-resources
http://www2.library.tohoku.ac.jp/kano/05-001049/05-001049.html

狩野文庫画像データベース画像一覧: Apr 28, 9:21am 0 review library-resources
http://www2.library.tohoku.ac.jp/kano/05-001036/05-001036.html

Next Rabbit: Apr 21, 2:42pm 1 review science
http://www.nextnature.net/?p=2255; From the page; "This is not a 3-D-animation of a fictional creature, but an actual existing animal: the Angora Rabbit. Is this what happens when we over breed animals? Or, is this the result of having too much time on your hands?"

The New York Times & Log In: Apr 15, 2:49pm 1 review multimedia
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/world/middleeast/14cairo.html?_r=1&oref=slogin; From the page: "Noise " outrageous, unceasing, pounding noise " is the unnerving backdrop to a tense time in Egypt, as inflation and low wages have people worried about basic survival, prompting strikes and protests. We窶re not just talking typical city noise, but what scientists here say is more like living inside a factory.

"It's not enough to make you crazy, but it is very tiring," said Essam Muhammad Hussein, as he sat in a cracked plastic chair outside the corner food shop his family has owned for 50 years. He was shouting as he talked about the noise, though he did not seem to realize it.

"What are we going to do?" he asked. "Where is the way out?"

This is not like London or New York, or even Tehran, another car-clogged Middle Eastern capital. It is literally like living day in and day out with a lawn mower running next to your head, according to scientists with the National Research Center. They spent five years studying noise levels across the city and concluded in a report issued this year that the average noise from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. is 85 decibels, a bit louder than a freight train 15 feet away, said Mustafa el Sayyid, an engineer who helped carry out the study."

Apr 8, 3:00pm: The Pontine Marshes at Sunset 1848-August Kopisch

The New York Times &62; US &62; Image &62;: Apr 7, 2:25pm 0 review capitalism
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/04/05/us/05sheep_CA0.ready.html

The New York Times & Log In: Apr 7, 9:05am 0 review multimedia
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/arts/design/07chan.html

The New York Times & Log In: Apr 6, 2:17pm 1 review multimedia
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/movies/06heston.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin; The less known Heston here; independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/charlton-heston-a... [independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-and-tv/features/charlton-heston-a...]

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