Belaboring the obvious since 1967. "Language is a labyrinth of paths." Ludwig Wittgenstein. "Hush hush, baby don't believe a word." Corky Siegel. “Let me say this about that.” Richard Nixon. "An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write." E.B. White. "Style is based on limitation." John Hartford. "Easy reading is damn hard writing." Nathaniel Hawthorne. "I'm better off having something to get up for every morning." Edna Case.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Still Life with Desktop
Handmade clay pot, pewter bowl with keys, four mugs full of pens and pencils, wooden box of binder clips, headphones; wooden box with stones, birch bark, turtle shell; lamp, antique desktop with slots containing Chinese chop, Chinese balls, notecards, envelopes, address stickers, stamps, old address books, bank transaction registers, recent receipts, 2012 Day Runner planner; electric pencil sharpener, mug full of scissors, wire rack of bills, line gauges, iPod nano (unused), Trepanning cassette (unheard), Church of the Master illustrated pamphlet, oil can; stack of magazines, file folders of correspondence (unfiled), half-filled writing pads, class rosters; stack of books: Gaddy and Hart, Real Estate Fundamentals; Remnick, ed., The New Gilded Age; Rheingold, They Have a Word for It; Dennis and Pinkowish, Residential Mortgage Lending; Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow; Bloom, Bloom's Bouquet of Imaginary Words; Minardi, Short Bike Rides, Ohio; Rosenthal, The Surreal Calder; 2013 Staples planner, wicker basket with wallet, post-it notes.
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