10 Treasures 2

“I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.” –Marilyn Monroe

“If you are my student reading this and, it being the end of the drop/add period, completely unable to prevent the fact that we will be discussing various lyric/warped subjects until the first week of May, then: hi. You might be awake. If you go to see this play, and write a letter to the playwright, or the director, or one of the actors, or the stage manager, or the sound/projection genius, then...I don't know. How can you give extra credit in advance? That's wrong. I can't figure this out right now, but basically, go on the bus to Denver and see this play. I command you. Well, obviously, I don't. That would be wrong too. I'll shut up now.” –Banu Kapil (from her blog)

“The Adam’s apple is no apple
But a little man, an artistic type,
An unpublished poet half swallowed,
Squatting in front of the voice box.” –Linh Dinh (“Ductless Gland” from Borderless Bodies)

“A dictionary with positive adjectives only.
A dictionary with no wet verbs.
A dictionary with negotiable definitions.
A dictionary that defines words by their antonyms.” –Linh Dinh (excerpt from “Brand New Products”)

“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.”- Richard Dawkins

“In the centre of this singular chamber was a square table, littered with papers, bottles, and the dried leaves of some graceful, palm-like plant. These varied objects had all been heaped together in order to make room for a mummy case, which had been conveyed from the wall, as was evident from the gap there, and laid across the front of the table. The mummy itself, a horrid, black, withered thing, like a charred head on a gnarled bush, was lying half out of the case, with its claw-like hand and bony forearm resting upon the table.”- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle."- Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility)

“There were a lot of situations were men were being evil to women—dominating them and eating their food.” – Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
This just stuck out to me, it could be because of the picture on the page, but it was probably just because of how it relates to my everyday life.

“I put my father in show, with his cold eyes. His segment was called My Father Concerned about his Liver.” – Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace

This was interesting to me mainly because of the picture. I had to stare at the picture above this quote for at least ten minutes before I could tell what it actually was. It just made me think of the literal show I create in my head while writing and how dysfunctional some of the images are.

“The new volcano we have placed under contract seems very promising.”- Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace

A reflection on how we see things as conveniences and expect most things in life to occur according to our own personal agenda.