Posts Tagged ‘quotes’

Tom Waits & the art of conversation

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

- Tom Waits

Which is a wonderful thought enough for this time of day, moreover & however take good care of the following video, in which Mr Tom Waits explores issues close to all of us, explaining the meaning of the word/acronym/god PEHDTSCKJMBA for those of you who are yet to become acquainted, in one of the finest press conferences you are likely to see in the next ten minutes:

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quote: History &/or Memory

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

I will not make this needlessly long:

The explosive pertinence of a remembered detail may challenge repressive or merely complacent systems of prescriptive memory or history; memory like the body, may speak in a language that reasoned inquiry will not hear.

Randolph Starn & Natalie Zemon Davis

N.B. also, two fantastic names.

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