Wednesday, September 16, 2009
"As a movie about a flesh-eating cheerleader, it’s better than it has to be"
That would be Roger Ebert's praise for Jennifer's Body, starring Megan Fox's body. (H/t WWTDD.)
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And therefore, reader, I myself am the subject of my book; it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain.
-- Montaigne, Essays, "To the Reader.""I shall see myself, I shall read myself, I shall go into ecstacies, and I shall ask -- Is it possible that I have so much ésprit?"
-- Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols.... the torturer has become – like the pirate and slave trader before him – hostis humani generis, an enemy of all mankind.
-- Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.2d 876, 890 (2d Cir. 1980)
Untimely Meditations
... Memory Yields.
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