From Hamlet to Kierkegaard, the word “Danish” has been synonymous with fun, fun, fun… Who else would have the sense of humor to stuff prunes and toecheese into lumps of wet dough and serve it to you for breakfast?… Let’s hear it for those those very wonderful kooky, very crazy, very whacky, very witty Danes! […]
Places Quotes
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.
Nelson Algren says living there (Chicago) is like being married to a woman with a broken nose: there may be lovelier lovelies, but never a lovely so real.
Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me.
Somewhat back from the village street Stands the old fashioned country-seat. Across its antique portico Tall poplars their shadows throw; And from its ancient station in the hall An ancient timepiece says to all, – Forever – never! Never – forever!
Prague seemed – it still seems, after many rival cities – not only one of the most beautiful places in the world, but one of the strangest. Fear, piety, zeal, strife and pride, tempered in the end by the milder impulses of munificence and learning and “doucer de vivre”, had flung up an unusual array […]
In some Places, as in Amsterdam, the Foundation costs more than the Superstructure, for the Ground being soft, they are constrained to ram in huge stakes of Timber (with Wool about it to preserve it from Putrefaction) till they come to a firm Basis; so that, as one said, Whosoever could see Amsterdam under ground […]
Spain is the only country where death is the national spectacle. (bullfighting)
When first in the dim light of early morning I saw the shores of Cuba rise and define themselves from dark-blue horizons, I felt as if I sailed with Captain Silver and first gazed on Treasure Island. Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here […]
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
