Tuesday, January 25, 2011

"Intellectual suicide"

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Chiaroscuro

In art, a strong contrast between dark and light.

It is quite strange to sit in Starbucks, completely zoned out, and realize with a start that the design of the cafe is such that the colors, and the placement of everything, really, is to create the illusion of far more depth than what actually is there.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Ratiocination, elenchus, maxim, enlightenment, distention, remarkable, expression, atheism, sabbath, anthropological, ammunition, intoxicate

From the writings of CS Lewis, a new favorite of mine.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

"It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past." -CS Lewis