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Above, a random number between 1 and 1,000, which I obtained from random.org, offering “true random numbers to anyone on the Internet.” Get your own random number today!
[For the record: I know that random numbers are not a joke.]
Michael Leddy“Orange Crate Art” is a song by Van Dyke Parks and the title of a 1995 album by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. “Orange Crate Art” is for me one of the great American songs: “Orange crate art was a place to start.”
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Who are we as a country?”
[For the record: I know that random numbers are not a joke.]
Michael Leddy
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Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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I turn around and I give it
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Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
*
I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
comments: 15
Did you get to pick your own? Because I happen to know that 42 is THE number to pick; it's the answer to everything!
Hunh--my captcha is lanierde; just the other day I directed someone to check out 'Song of the Chattahoochee' for an example of the usage of AMAIN.
Elaine, at first I thought this comment was from “my” Elaine; then I wondered if you minored in mindreading. Why? Because I’ve already drafted a post with a second random number — 42, as seen in the NYC subway this past summer.
Oops; perhaps I should be styling myself as Other Elaine.
It's actually -Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy- that gives us '42;' and of course, the Universe's Most Useful Object.
Wikipedia to the rescue. I had no idea.
Now you can honestly say, 'I have The Answer.'
But can you name the world's most useful object?
Swiss Army knife?
I'd vote for the Swiss Army knife, too, but I'll bet Elaine means the Babel fish.
Wikipedia to the rescue. So that’s why Yahoo’s translation service has a fish in its name.
But what was the question, asked Irwin Cory.
NO! It's not the Babel fish (though it is 'most curious.') Good guess, but no cigar. (Swiss Army knife, ditto.)
This is one of those, 'Did you read this book?' test questions.
If I am not mistaken it is the towel.
I've read the entire four-book trilogy a number of times, Elaine. Perhaps you mean a towel?
Oops, I mean to add this to my previous comment: the question, to Anon's question, was: "what's the answer to life, the universe, and everything?"
I feel like a traveler looking up everything in a phrasebook. :)
Gunther wins a prize! (The prize, of course, is a towel.)
We made sure to give each of our HS seniors The Most Useful Object as one of the graduation/off-to-college gifts, naturally.
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