Ernest Hemingway’s standing desk:
A working habit he has had from the beginning, Hemingway stands when he writes. He stands in a pair of his oversized loafers on the worn skin of a lesser kudu — the typewriter and the reading board chest-high opposite him.
- Paris Review, 1958
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Octopus on a wine bottle! (Taken with instagram)
Had he lived, John Cheever would have turned a hundred this week. Brad Leithauser posts on our Page-Turner blog in remembrance of his style, and his mastery of the art of the devastating phrase: http://nyr.kr/KLQnx4
this is the good life.
Untitled: Broken.
I have a friend who’s been having the hardest year of her life.. She feels lost, confused, and like God is far away and out of touch. A “desert” period, people would call it. She’s enduring through it faithfully, but still can’t wait to see herself get out of it. But it’s funny cuz around this…
designer James van der Velden’s home in Amsterdam | via desire to inspire
Is the English language going to the dogs? Joan Acocella on the battle over the way we speak: http://nyr.kr/IJLIHT
No more genteelism!
When orders are issued in other spheres of life there is no doubt whatever of their meaning. If a father sends his child to bed, the boy knows at once what he has to do. But suppose he has picked up a smattering of pseudo-theology. In that case he would argue more or less like this: ‘Father tells me to go to bed, but he really means I am tired, and he does not want me to be tired. I can overcome my tiredness just as well if I go out and play. Therefore, though Father tells me to go to bed, he really means, ‘Go out and play.’” If a child tried such arguments on his father or a citizen on his government, they would both meet with a kind of language they could not fail to understand - in short, they would be punished. Are we to treat the commandments of Jesus differently from other orders and exchange single-minded obedience for downright disobedience? How could that be possible!
The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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