The Operations Of The Human

We Must Reject That Most Dismal And Fatuous Notion That Education Is A Preparation For Life.

Work, As We Usually Think Of It, Is Energy Expended For A Further End In View; Play Is Energy Expended For Its Own Sake, As With Children's Play, Or As Manifestation Of The End Or Goal Of Work, As In "playing" Chess Or The Piano. Play In This Sense, Then, Is The Fulfillment Of Work, The Exhibition Of What The Work Has Been Done For.

We Are Being Swallowed Up By The Popular Culture Of The United States, But Then The Americans Are Being Swallowed Up By It Too. It's Just As Much A Threat To American Culture As It Is To Ours.

The Traveler From Europe Edges Into It Like A Tiny Jonah Entering An Inconceivably Large Whale, Slipping Past The Straits Of Belle Isle Into The Gulf Of St. Lawrence, Where Five Canadian Provinces Surround Him, For The Most Part Invisible... To Enter Canada Is A Matter Of Being Silently Swallowed By An Alien Continent.

Poetry Can Only Be Made Out Of Other Poems; Novels Out Of Other Novels.