Ecce venter!

Deanna Miles — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:25:40 +0000

What one wishes for in youth, one gets in abundance in old age.

Deanna Miles — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:55:14 +0000

“A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end.”

-Aristotle, Poetics ch. 7, 1450b 26-7.

Deanna Miles — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:48:19 +0000

“Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he [Gordian II 238 A.D.] left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation.”

- Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Ch. 7.

Deanna Miles — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:40:53 +0000

“Technology…the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it.”

-Max Frisch, Homo Faber (1957) pt. 2.

Deanna Miles — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:16:52 +0000

“If you want to live a long and healthy life, your best bet is to get off the couch, not cut the carbohydrates…You can be obese and fit…30 minutes of gentle activity each day-such as going for a walk-can reduce mortality rates by half.”

-Mike Stone, The Associated Press, Thursday, January 12, 2012.

Deanna Miles — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:02:29 +0000

Who is able to foil the wile of a woman?

Deanna Miles — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:28:54 +0000

“…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.”

-Victor Cousin, Du Vrai, du beau, et du bien [Sorbonne lecture, 1818] (1853) pt.

Deanna Miles — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:19:30 +0000

“You have come upon fabled lands where myths go when they die.”

-James Fenton, The Pitt-Rivers Museum, 1983.

Deanna Miles — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:32:40 +0000

What history has swallowed up we can only imagine!

-Justin Marozzi

Deanna Miles — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:54:30 +0000

The choice of what constitutes an authoritative voice and good information is problematic and should not be taken for granted.

-Gary Alan Fine