http://www.voicesinthefog.com I can't see you, but I know you're there. Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:19:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad. - John Benbow in Manuscript and Proof, cited in The Making of a Name. http://www.voicesinthefog.com/2008/04/08/hyphens-are-mad/ We think what’s happening during sleep is that you open the aperture of memory and are able to see this bigger picture. - Neuroscientist Matthew Walker in a NYTimes article. http://www.voicesinthefog.com/2007/10/25/sleep-on-it/ Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. - Lao-tzu in the Tao Te Ching, from a translation by S. Mitchell http://www.voicesinthefog.com/2007/06/24/the-paradox-of-water/ [...] with just-in-time-delivery and what-have-you-done-for-me-lately being sovereign, everything is of the moment, and the noise is deafening. - Ken Alexander, in the July/August 2007 editorial of The Walrus http://www.voicesinthefog.com/2007/06/15/the-noise-is-deafening/ [...] a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. - Oshima in Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore http://www.voicesinthefog.com/2007/03/18/perfection-is-imperfection/ The mechanics of cognitive overload are similar to the problem of insufficient RAM. - John Lorinc in The Walrus http://www.voicesinthefog.com/2007/03/15/cognitive-overload-is-like-not-enough-ram/ We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep. - Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1 http://www.voicesinthefog.com/2006/09/01/we-are-such-stuff-as-dreams-are-made-on/ Time is an anaconda and Montreal is the sadistic zookeeper that starves that anaconda, then drapes it around your neck. - A Voice in the Fog http://www.voicesinthefog.com/2006/08/19/time-is-an-anaconda/ In war, truth is the first casualty. - Aeschylus http://www.voicesinthefog.com/2006/08/01/war-and-truth/ I talk on the phone. I begin every day on the touch tone. This is what I need to bring me back. Voices. - Delfina in Don DeLillo's Valparaiso http://www.voicesinthefog.com/2006/07/18/valparaiso/