"My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance. I prefer cats to people, for the most part. Most people aren't cute at all, and if they are cute they very rapidly outgrow it."
William S. Burroughs
During my convalescence from a recent medical escapade, I started to weed out some of the saved and bookmarked ephemeral. This seems like as good a place as any to deposit some.
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I had the good fortune to meet Allen Ginsberg at a reading in Princeton, N.J. long, long ago. The weather was miserable and the turnout was small, but Ginsberg spent more than an hour reading from a number of his books and stayed to chat with the small crowd. What i remember most was his personal warmth and generosity. He answered every question as though it was meaningful to him.
When Tolkien drew his maps and covered them with names, he felt no need to bring all the names into the story. They do their work by suggesting that there is a world outside the story, that the story is only a selection; and the same goes for the hints of other creatures unaffected by and uninterested in the main plot. Middle-earth is different from its many imitators in its density, its redundancy, and consequently its depth…
Tom Shippey, J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
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