Though it was at Kay-Bee, I too endured the Tickle Me Elmo season.
Part Two, Chapter 9
But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.
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Necessity knows no magic formulae - they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Fancis of Assisi’s shoulders.
Excerpts from The Unbearable Lightness of Being
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22)
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Drawing.
"The Losers like to feel good about their lives. They are the happiness seekers, rather than will-to-power players, and enter and exit reactively, in response to the meta-Darwinian trends in the economy. But they have no more loyalty to the firm than the sociopaths. They do have a loyalty to individual people, and a commitment to finding fulfillment through work when they can, and coasting when they cannot."
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The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”
This is one of the most astute assessments of office/work culture I’ve read. If you have a job (or plan to have a job), it’s worth reading, regardless of your familiarity with The Office.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15)
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This is and probably always will be the most beautiful analysis and presentation of a subject so dear to my childhood.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8)
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