If you can’t see that your own culture has its own set of interests, emotions, and biases, how can you expect to deal successfully with someone else’s culture?
High on their posthumous pedestals, the dead become hard to see. Grief, deference, and the homogenizing effects of adulation blur the details, flatten the bumps, sand off the sharp corners.
He was constantly, pathologically, insanely busy. That’s how he afforded the wine.
I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.
But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren't careful, they floated away.
A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness.
You mean we're going chronological order within each author? he gasped. But no one even knows for sure when Shakespeare wrote his plays!Well, I blustered, we know he wrote Romeo and Juliet before The...
When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had been reorganized by color and size. Shortly thereafter, the decorator met with a fatal automobile accident. I confess that when this s...
The same doctors who listen to Continuing Medical Education audiocassettes on their car stereos, intent on keeping up with every innovation that might improve their outcome statistics, may regard cros...
The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.
Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions an...
Conquergood considered his relationship with the Hmong to be a form of barter, a productive and mutually invigorating dialog, with neither side dominating or winning out. In his opinion, the physician...
Our father used to tell us stories about a bookworm named Wally. Wally, a squiggly little vermicule with a red baseball cap, didn't merely like books. He ate them.
When you think about Laos and about not having enough food and those dirty and torn-up clothes, you don't want to think. Here it is a great country. You are comfortable. You have something to eat. But...
When the corpses of [Sir John] Franklin's officers and crew were later discovered, miles from their ships, the men were found to have left behind their guns but to have lugged such essentials as monog...
Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had been reorganized by color and size. Shortly...
So, if you're a doctor, how can you recognize that you're having a feeling? Some tips from Dr. Zinn:Most emotions have physical counterparts. Anxiety may be associated with a tightness of the abdomen...
It is well known that involuntary migrants, no matter what pot they are thrown into, tend not to melt.
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.