The Standard Model. The Very Large Telescope. Bears who can talk. Construction sites, and the metal-beams therein. Revolutions Orange and Cedar. I like Rodin. I do. Victor Yuschenko, Elizabeth Bishop, Edna St.Vincent Millay, Philip Larkin, Philip Levine, George Eliot, E.M Forster, Somerset Maugham, Alice Munro, J.M Coetzee, Anne Sexton, Flannery O’Connor, Jane Smiley, Henrik Ibsen, Jacek Malczewski, Howard Nemerov, Rainer Maria Rilke, Christopher Hitchens, Thom Gunn, A.E Stallings, Mark Helprin, some Sharon Olds, but not all of it, some Louise Glück, but not all of it, Camille Claudel, but not all of it, Whittaker Chambers, Annie Dillard, Keith and Kathy, Nick Sarah Andy Matt Ben Carrie, Maddy Ava Drew Dominic, “Pied Beautyâ€, “Invitation to Miss Marianne Mooreâ€, the word “ceruleanâ€, the word “clemencyâ€, the word “thicketâ€, the word “palimpsestâ€, when people say “That’s the ticket!â€, when people say, "Yes, you may borrow my scissors", the Clanswilliam cedar, the sewing of button eyes, the people and when they uprise and all. Belarus. Lewis and Clark. I’m sort of wildly entertained by the concept of the Louisiana Purchase in general. And by the phrase “Manifest Destinyâ€. And the phrase “Secretary of the Interiorâ€. I’d love to be the Secretary of the Interior. For the record, the current Secretary of the Interior is a man named DIRK KEMPTHORNE. Dirk Kempthorne: why do you have both the life and the name of my waking dreams? That Mary Oliver poem, where she says: “Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delightâ€. True that, Mary Oliver. True that. I think Peyton Manning is a real sweetie pie.
Toby Ziegler.
"Einstein's Dreams": dreamy. I love the nature of time, don't you?
Votin’.