Orts #718

  
All civilizations end and get buried—some dead, some alive. In the past, the sands did it, as in Egypt. They crept up and up. . . . Today? It is words. We live not among sand-storms but word-storms.
     — Clarence Day, Thoughts Without Words (1928)
 
 
When eras die, their legacies
   Are left to strange police.
Professors in New England guard
   The glory that was Greece.
     — Clarence Day, Thoughts Without Words (1928)
 
 
The novel is the vital antidote to the mentality that the internet promotes.
     — Sven Birkerts (1951-   )

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Yiddish tango!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ76EjUe4qk 
 

 

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