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“Do you remember, darling
A year ago today
When we gave ourselves to each other
Before you went away
At the end of that pleasant summer weather
Which we had spent by the sea together?
How little we knew, my darling,
All that the year would bring!
Did I think of the wretched mornings
When I should kiss my ring
And long with all my heart to see
The girl who gave the ring to me?
We have not been sorry darling
We loved each other so-
We will not take back the promises
We made a year ago-
And so again, my darling
I give myself to you,
With graver thought than a year ago
With love that is deep and true.”
―
A year ago today
When we gave ourselves to each other
Before you went away
At the end of that pleasant summer weather
Which we had spent by the sea together?
How little we knew, my darling,
All that the year would bring!
Did I think of the wretched mornings
When I should kiss my ring
And long with all my heart to see
The girl who gave the ring to me?
We have not been sorry darling
We loved each other so-
We will not take back the promises
We made a year ago-
And so again, my darling
I give myself to you,
With graver thought than a year ago
With love that is deep and true.”
―
“Satire,” said Swift, “is a glass in which we see every countenance but our own.”
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
“Criticism is far too clever; that is what will be the death of it. It never judges straightforwardly what has been done straightforwardly. It looks for midday at two in the afternoon, as the old saying goes, and it must have done a great deal of harm to those artists who pay too much attention to its opinions.”
― Indiana
― Indiana
“All you need to do right now is be open to the idea that your responses to current things in your life might be driven by, say, five-year-old you. Would you let a five-year-old make major decisions for your marriage or family? Would you let a five-year-old decide your career moves? I don’t think so.”
― Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free
― Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free
“The same nursery rhyme comments on the consequences of the fall of Humpty-Dumpty. That is the point about the King’s horses and men. They, too, are fragmented and specialized. Having no unified vision of the whole, they are helpless. Humpty-Dumpty is an obvious example of integral wholeness. The mere existence of the wall already spelt his fall. James Joyce in Finnegans Wake never ceases to interlace these themes, and the title of the work indicates his awareness that “a-stone-aging” as it may be, the electric age is recovering the unity of plastic and iconic space, and is putting Humpty-Dumpty back together again.”
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
― Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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Nick’s 2025 Year in Books
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