by Charles Norman | Nov 26, 2019 | Song of the Day
This Betty Bliss, a plump maternal girl of some twenty-nine summers, was a soft thorn in Pnin’s aging flesh… Pnin had nothing against Miss Bliss. In trying to visualize a serene senility, he saw her with passable clarity bringing him his lap robe or...
by Charles Norman | Nov 24, 2019 | Song of the Day
Jim: If she can just hang on for a little while longer, this will be so huge for our family.Toby: Well, what’s a little while?Jim: What do you mean?Toby: I mean, what’s the end date? It must be really hard for her to sign on to be unhappy if she doesn’t know when it’s...
by Charles Norman | Nov 21, 2019 | Song of the Day
‘They have worries, they’re counting the miles, they’re thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they’ll get there — and all the time they’ll get there anyway…’ I told Dean that the thing that bound us all...
by Charles Norman | Nov 13, 2019 | Song of the Day
It’s pretty much without color. It’s gray, and it’s a very white, chalky gray… I’m looking at the Earth. It’s big and bright and beautiful. — Neil Armstrong comparing the Moon and the Earth immediately after the Apollo 11...
by Charles Norman | Nov 9, 2019 | Song of the Day
My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love… Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair. — Søren Kierkegaard Despair is not correlated with any particular set of emotions but is instead...
