An Association of Ideas

"The association is the idea." -- Ian Lee

"One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist... I took it as a compliment."
-- Susanna Kaysen in Girl, Interrupted

MIT biography of Carl Kaysen, Susanna Kaysen's father:

"His scholarly work has ranged widely in the areas where economics, sociology, politics and law overlap."

From Venn Diagram
by Alejandro Fuentes Penna and
Oscar de la Paz Arroyo,
ITESM Campus Cuernavaca,
Lomas de Cuernavaca,
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

"Ahí construyó Félix Candela la Capilla abierta (1959, junto con Guillermo Rosell y Manuel Larrosa)

que iba a ser un templo para todas las religiones, pero que no fue autorizada por las autoridades. Más adelante la Capilla habría de convertirse en restaurante, como el de Xochimilco construido en 1957, discoteca, bar y teatro. En el Casino de la Selva vivieron personajes famosos. Uno de ellos fue el escritor inglés Malcolm Lowry...."

-- El Casino de la Selva,
   Octavio Rodríguez Araujo

"No se puede vivir sin amar."

-- Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

Super Tuesday

O the days of the Kerry dancing....
When the boys began to gather,
    in the glen of a summer's night.
And the Kerry piper's tuning 
    made us long with wild delight.

For further details, see April 16, 2003.

Passion

From the previous entry:

 1.
Oscar:
military phonetic
for the letter
'O'

From an entry of Dec. 21, 2002, some background in literary theory:

At the Oscars Sunday night, a thought attributed by Billy Crystal to Sean Connery:

"Pussy Galore! I just got it! That's vulgar."

For further background, see

Passing the Crown (Aug. 24, 2003) and

The Agony and the Ya-Ya (Oct. 4, 2002).