Monday, June 16, 2003
�Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just flimsy reputation and a name��
- Brian Aldis (b. 1925), British science fiction writer: �Ap�ritif� from �Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith�s�, 1990.
�Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.�
- Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist: �Cool Memories�, 1987, translated 1990.
�Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.�
- Henry Miller (1891 � 1980), American writer: �Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch�, 1957.
- Brian Aldis (b. 1925), British science fiction writer: �Ap�ritif� from �Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith�s�, 1990.
�Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.�
- Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist: �Cool Memories�, 1987, translated 1990.
�Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.�
- Henry Miller (1891 � 1980), American writer: �Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch�, 1957.
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