Archives for November 2026

"Curiosity is better described as risk, with all that implies; and that implies not knowing what it implies." Adam Phillips (Is Curiosity Good for You, LRB 2026) "Dream time, time expressed as a spatial network, rhythm—these are the elements that compose the theatre in which dreams are enacted.” Salomon Resnik (Mental Space) “...certain that human laughter is intimately connected with the accident of an ancient fall, of a physical and moral degradation.” Charles Baudelaire (The Essence of Laughter) “According to the Nazi director of broadcasting, writing in 1935, the “sacred mission” of television was “to plant indelibly the image of the Führer in the hearts of the German … [Read more...]