Quotations Weblog

This movie is a strange reading of a portion of a poem by Lewis Carroll. It is almost three minutes long. For those of us who find Carroll’s work disturbing, this should come as no surprise.

The director, Nick Fox-Gieg, describes his work as such:

Have you ever looked at a sentence until it gradually stopped making sense? For this short, I took a bit from a little-known Lewis Carroll poem, and repeated it until it lost any kind of meaning.

The portion of the poem from The Mad Gardener’s Song is as follows:

He thought he saw a Argument
That proved he was the Pope:
He looked again, and found it was
A Bar of Mottled Soap.
‘A fact so dread,’ he faintly said,
‘Extinguishes all hope!’

For the complete poem by Lewis Carroll, see the Poetry Archives:

• Poetry X » Poetry Archives » Lewis Carroll » “The Mad Gardener’s Song”

The way the title of this article was written, it made it sound like the school board had eliminated the teaching of evolution altogether. I started to get hot under the collar before I even had a chance to read the article.

• CNN.com – State board eliminates evolution lesson plan – Feb 15, 2006

It turns out that the Ohio Board of Education voted to remove the lesson plan that was submitted, which suggested that students look for evidence to prove or disprove evolution. That kind of talk is a gateway drug to intelligent design, which is Creationism’s foot in the door of our Biology classes.

Stay in the Theology wing where you belong.

President’s Day just feels like an excuse for the mail carriers and bank tellers to take a day off, but it all started with the desire to honor some of our best leaders.

If you have the day off, enjoy it. If you don’t, blame any activity on the fact that the banks are closed and the mail won’t come until tomorrow.

For more quotations:

• George Washington Quotes – The Quotations Page

• Abraham Lincoln Quotes – The Quotations Page

There has been a lot of talk about Jim Frey’s book, “A Million Little Pieces”. After presenting the book as nonfiction and being received with great accolades, everyone has been shocked to learn that it has been greatly embellished.

This isn’t the first time this has happened, as noted by Tom Bissell in his 2004 lecture, “Truth in Oxiana”.

• World Hum | Truth in Oxiana

There are two sides to the issue and people are talking about truth like it’s a concrete item instead of a concept. I don’t know if a writer CAN write the whole truth about anything because our perception of the world will always be tainted by our view of it. My stories about my grandma would be completely different than my sister’s stories about her and even more different than our father’s. Bissell seems to believe the same.

They haven’t even gotten in the door yet. They have cut a hole in the door and have allowed the press to peek in it.

• Happy News – Egypt offers first peek at new tombs – By Associated Press

I find the discovery of new tombs to be exciting. Long ago, there was a saying that you couldn’t dig a hole in Egypt without stumbling on a tomb. Now, it seems that the intact tombs are much more difficult to find.