lego & philosophy

"Somehow, her face, from which much flesh had been burned away, set me thinking of the eight Americans who immolated themselves in that era of protest. Is that so strange? If nothing is remembered of them, why should those who were consumed much more slowly have been noticed?" --Tom Engelhardt, The Last Days of Publishing (2003)

"It tells you everything about that moment that his plan left us effervescent, even though in any other time it would have seemed imprudent at best and lacking even a modicum of common sense at worst."