Della Springfield

“was trembling”
― Fred Gipson, Old Yeller

“There were things of the times, and a few things that were timeless. The times came as a result of a particular human culture. The timeless came as a result of any human culture at all. And Cultural Man was a showman. He created display windows of culture for an audience of men, and paraded his aspirations and ideals and purposes thereon, and the displays were necessary to the continuity of the culture, to the purposeful orientation of the species.

Beyond one such window, he erected an altar, and placed a priest before it to chant a liturgical description of the heart-reasoning of his times. And beyond another window, he built a stage and set his talking dolls upon it to live a dramaturgical sequence of wishes and woes of his times.

True, the priests would change, the liturgy would change, and the dolls, the dramas, the displays--but the windows would never--no never--be closed as long as Man outlived his members, for only through such windows could transient men see themselves against the background of a broader sweep, see man encompassed by Man. A perspective not possible without the windows.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., The Darfsteller and Other Stories

“Quote of the day: (Opening chapter from, Heresy)

"He zaps from channel to channel, finally accepting to complete the job, bravely initiated by the alcohol, to further numb his tortured brain, and watch an emission, perfectly tailored for the degenerated masses, cynically named, ‘Switzerland has talent”
― Gary Edward Gedall

“En cambio, cuando le escriba, sus cartas deberán ser apasionadas, incendiarias. Leer una carta de amor bien escrita es para una orgullosa placer de dioses. Al saborearla, olvida la comedia que representa y da oídos a la voz de su corazón:”
― Stendhal, Rojo y Negro