Jason Kottke recently posted an interesting tidbit about Ernest Hemingway’s standing desk.
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Happy Birthday, W. Somerset Maugham
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. W. Somerset Maugham, January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
George Santayana
“Then there is the other secret. There isn’t any symbolysm. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”
Ernest Hemingway, 1952, in a letter to Bernard Berenson
Writing Isn’t Easy
For a few months this summer I was a Birchbox member. It’s a pretty cool service. For $20/mo you get a little box full of samples of hair products, shampoo, soap, and other toiletries, and then they also include something interesting like a pair of sunglasses or a wallet or an iPhone cable. The last
Notes from History
Can you imagine opening a book and finding a note from Hemingway inside?
Alternate Endings
The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college.