See if you can find Baby Jane and sister Blanche.

Yes, I only just noticed it.

It’s My Life – No Doubt

Madonna of the Magnificat (detail)

was Peter Pan in Neverland also a catcher in the rye?

I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy.

in The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

July 30, 1958

To you, health and happiness.

On Reading and Books, not by Schopenhauer

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.

in The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger

Thomas Beatie had a baby.

Remember the pregnant man? Meet his baby girl!

(video)

well, yes and no.

The art of not reading is highly important. This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time. [...] Remember rather that the man who writes for fools always finds a large public: and only read for a limited and definite time exclusively the works of great minds, those who surpass other men of all times and countries, and whom the voice of fame points to as such. These alone really educate and instruct.

Arthur Schopenhauer, On Reading and Books

Violins! Violins! Violins!

Experiment IV 12” Remix – Kate Bush

the fourth clockwork experiment

It’s interesting how great minds think alike. It seems both Kubrick and Kate find the thought of Pure gone Poisonous really terrifying, particularly when it applies to Music. Did A Clockwork Orange inspire Experiment IV?

This post contains A Clockwork Orange spoilers.

wish list

1. Alethiometer