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Warming up - Doodle #1808

Thu, 17 May 2012 03:00 +0000

Smooth ice
is paradise
for those who dance with expertise.

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Goatherd - Doodle #1807

Thu, 17 May 2012 02:53 +0000

"If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged."

Virginia Woolf

Midday heat - Doodle #1806

Tue, 15 May 2012 02:36 +0000

"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."

Thomas Arnold

Bellboy and guest - Doodle #1805

Tue, 15 May 2012 02:15 +0000

"I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel."

Billy Wilder

The uninhabitable - Doodle #1804

Tue, 15 May 2012 01:56 +0000

"The uninhabitable: the architecture of contempt or display, the vainglorious mediocrity of tower blocks, thousands of rabbit hutches piled one above the other, the cutprice ostentation of company headquarters."

Georges Perec, "Species of Spaces," 1974

Transforming car (show and tell) - Doodle #1803

Mon, 14 May 2012 06:01 +0000

"The long concatenations of simple and easy reasoning which geometricians use in achieving their most difficult demonstrations gave me occasion to imagine that all matters which may enter the human mind were interrelated in the same fashion."

Rene Descartes