Camille Paglia – the American professor and cultural critic – was born on this day – April 2 in 1947 in Endicott, New York.
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Monthly Archives: April 2024
Camille Paglia was born
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A teacher should never do your thinking for you. She should give you texts to read and guide you along the path of making sense of them for yourself. She should introduce you to the books and essays of writers who disagree with one another and ask you to determine whose case is better.
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic
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Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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Campus Life at
Cal State San Bernardino
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To mislead a rival, deception is permissible; one may use all means against his enemies.
~ Armand Jean du Plessis
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Gmail was launched
on this day in 2004
Gmail was launched on this day – April 1 – in 2004.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
~ John Ruskin
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The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The open road is the great American literary device. Whether the example is Jack Kerouac or Tracy Chapman, the national canon is full of travel tales that observe America’s idiosyncrasies and inequalities, its dark corners and lost wanderers, but ultimately capture the hope that a better life is at the end of a long drive.
~ Spencer Kornhaber via The Atlantic
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The song that has most influenced pop music of the past decade might be one released in 1984: Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire.” With a rhythm that was twitchy but not quite danceable, with desperate vocals and cooling puddles of reverb, “I’m on Fire” was ballad and banger, confessional and slick, embodied and ghostly. Springsteen sang of being trapped on the edge of catharsis, and the music seemed to want to suspend time.
~ Spencer Kornhaber via The Atlantic
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