Dia membayangkan dirinya dipintal oleh 'Sang Waktu, Pemintal paling hebat dan paling lama dari semuanya', tapi mengakui bahwa,'tempat pemintalannya adalah tempat rahasia, pekerjaannya tak bersuara dan Tangan-Tangan Sang Waktu diredam.
Susan HubbardTag: time waktu pemintal tangan
What's life without risk," my father said. "Nothing but mauvais foi [bad faith]
Susan HubbardHe said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed animals -- weary of their cages, which were never large enough to begin with -- and they responded sluggishly to the whip. The trapeze artists fell with monotonous regularity into poorly strung nets. The clowns looked hungry. The tent leaked. The crowd was inattentive, shouting incoherently at inappropriate moments. And when the show was over, no one cheered.
Susan HubbardTag: academia the-society-of-s
I felt as if the world I lived in was only a facade - that beneath its skin, a darker world raged and rampaged. I'd glimpsed that world before, but I'd never known how vast and malignant it might be.
Susan HubbardMy father was right: people are always leaving. They fall in and out of your life like shadows.
Susan HubbardEven a dull life could make worthwhile reading, he said, provided the writer paid sufficient attention to detail.
Susan HubbardIn practicing the art of confusion, there is no better weapon than poetry.
Susan HubbardTag: poetry
She looked at me for a second and said, "Oh, never mind. I guess it's true what Mom said? That you've led a sheltered life?"
I said I thought the description fairly apt.
Tag: childhood outsider odd differentiation sheltered
She especially liked my bedside lamp, which had a five-sided porcelain shade. Unlit, the shade seemed like bumpy ivory. Lit, each panel came to life with the image of a bird: a blue jay, a cardinal, wrens, an oriole, and a dove. Kathleen turned it off and on again, several times. "How does it do that?"
"The panels are called lithophanes." I knew because I'd asked my father about the lamp, years ago. "The porcelain is carved and painted. You can see it if you look inside the shade."
"No," she said. "It's magic. I don't want to know how it's done.
Tag: birds lamp lithophanes
Who chose burial monuments? Were the wishes of the deceased taken into consideration? It was a subject I'd never considered before.
Susan HubbardTag: burial cemetery monuments tombstones
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