Januar 2019 Archiv

Ringschluss.

A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals.

Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt: The Ethical Slut

Zuhörstimmen.

As a counsellor she was not wanted; but as an approver (a much safer character) she was truly welcome.

Jane Austen: Emma

Habeo ergo sum.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.

Jimmy Carter: The Crisis of Confidence (1979-07-15)

Eispacken.

That said, parenting philosophy is one thing, life is another. At Pixie’s two-year-old development checkup, the nurse brought out a box of toys to assess his cognitive skills. Pixie promptly unpacked it all. Once it was established that he was well on track developmentally, the nurse asked him to pack the toys away; Pixie would not hear of it. I told him in Hungarian that after he packed away, we’d go for ice cream: he immediately sprung to action and delivered the most focussed packing job the nurse has ever seen. After expressing her amazement she asked me what I’d said…

Math, Chocolate and Circus: Raising a bilingual child

Unangeheim.

... and when she considered how peculiarly unlucky poor Mr. Elton was in being in the same room at once with the woman he had just married, the woman he had wanted to marry, and the woman whom he had been expected to marry, she must allow him to have the right to look as little wise, and to be as much affectedly, and as little really, easy as could be.

Jane Austen: Emma