January 2012
20 posts
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
– Siddhārtha Gautama
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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
– T. S. Eliot
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“Well, we have exorcised the ghost and kept the machine, and the machine is...”
– Marilynne Robinson, “Family,” in The Death of Adam, 1998
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“Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.”
– Woody Allen
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“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.”
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Right Fit
lareviewofbooks:
ROSTEN WOO on how the spacesuit was made.
Spaceman © Ed Emshwiller, courtesy of the Emshwiller family
Nicholas de Monchaux Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo The MIT Press, March 2011. 380 pp. Not long ago, I spent an afternoon inside Biosphere II, a 3.14-acre vivarium designed as an experimental “self-contained” ecosystem. Biosphere II hosted two missions — the second aborted...
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“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.”
– Jean-Luc Godard 