Comments on: Favorite Quote http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/02/favorite-quote-9.html a site about everything Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:21:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Phil Bebbington http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/02/favorite-quote-9.html/comment-page-1#comment-378734 Phil Bebbington Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:35:23 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=18996#comment-378734 Okay, so I have this on the shelf and have never read it - perhaps a thread, book we bought intending to read and didn't. This quote is wonderful, I'd read it for that alone, if I knew how. If nothing else, all this book talk is making me think about it. Okay, so I have this on the shelf and have never read it – perhaps a thread, book we bought intending to read and didn’t. This quote is wonderful, I’d read it for that alone, if I knew how.

If nothing else, all this book talk is making me think about it.

]]> By: Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/02/favorite-quote-9.html/comment-page-1#comment-378732 Sheila Ryan Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:24:25 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=18996#comment-378732 I got to recollecting <em>Heart of Darkness</em> this morning after looking at a <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/02/23/world/20090223CONGO_index.html?ref=world" rel="nofollow">photo of Congolese gold mine workers</a>. Actually, the black-and-white version of the image in the print edition is what really smacked me up-side the head. "Belgian Congo in 1890?" I asked myself. I got to recollecting Heart of Darkness this morning after looking at a New York Times photo of Congolese gold mine workers. Actually, the black-and-white version of the image in the print edition is what really smacked me up-side the head. “Belgian Congo in 1890?” I asked myself.

]]> By: Lucy Foley http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/02/favorite-quote-9.html/comment-page-1#comment-378726 Lucy Foley Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:10:18 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=18996#comment-378726 God I had almost forgotten that my current desktop image is a picture of a profoundly cute small hippo, its head peeping up out of a very peculiarly pastoral scene of meadow and daisies, and the hippo's mouth is smeared with daisy. All over. I love this hippo. I love him, do you hear? God I had almost forgotten that my current desktop image is a picture of a profoundly cute small hippo, its head peeping up out of a very peculiarly pastoral scene of meadow and daisies, and the hippo’s mouth is smeared with daisy. All over. I love this hippo. I love him, do you hear?

]]> By: Cindy Scroggins http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/02/favorite-quote-9.html/comment-page-1#comment-378725 Cindy Scroggins Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:06:16 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=18996#comment-378725 I seem to recall reading that hippos suffer from donkey envy. That explains a lot. I seem to recall reading that hippos suffer from donkey envy. That explains a lot.

]]> By: Lucy Foley http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/02/favorite-quote-9.html/comment-page-1#comment-378722 Lucy Foley Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:50:55 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=18996#comment-378722 Godammit it's important to recognise this sometimes so we can cut all our dead hippo breathing selves some slack. Godammit it’s important to recognise this sometimes so we can cut all our dead hippo breathing selves some slack.

]]> By: Cooper Renner http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/02/favorite-quote-9.html/comment-page-1#comment-378667 Cooper Renner Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:29:42 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=18996#comment-378667 Thank you for this! Thank you for this!

]]> By: Cindy Scroggins http://www.clusterflock.org/2009/02/favorite-quote-9.html/comment-page-1#comment-378593 Cindy Scroggins Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:51:51 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=18996#comment-378593 That's almost philosophy. That’s almost philosophy.

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