Down-filled sofa created in 1953 by the Milanese designer, architect and artist Gio Ponti (1891–1979) for the Hotel Bristol in Merona, Italy.

“Two brothers were sitting outside the Tivoli Fountain in Rome. One beggar had his hat in front of him, decorated with a crucifix. the other had his hat in front of him, his with a Star of David…”

“Poetry presents the thing in order to convey the feeling. It should be precise about the thing and reticent about the feeling...”

“Orwell was once arguing with a Communist sympathizer about the true nature of Stalin’s Russia…”

“The wind increased to a howl; the waves dashed their bucklers together; the whole squall roared, forked, and crackled around us like a white fire upon the prairie, in which, unconsumed, we were burning; immortal in these jaws of death! In vain we hailed the other boats; as well roar to the live coals down the chimney of a flaming furnace as hail those boats in that storm.”

Stevie Nicks sings “Landslide” to Lindsay Buckingham.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog ambushes two dozen nerds at Attack of the Clones premiere.

Gritty vocals and harmonica from Wells’ 1965 album Hoodoo Man Blues.

“The ne plus ultra of the poetic powers, not of the language but of language.”

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. They fare as did the dwarf who kept guard over a captured princess in his castle. One day he took a midday nap. When he woke up an hour later, the princess was gone. Quickly he pulled on his seven-league boots; with one stride he was far beyond her.”

“Hee waking early (as is the use of temperate men) had commonly a good Stock of Verses ready against his Amanuensis came. Which if it happened to bee later than ordinary, hee would complain, saying hee wanted to bee milkd.”

"How does it feel to know there's someone who will never abandon you? A plain but thoroughly gripping hook anchors her pledge to be there in the worst of times.”

“He had spent all evening struggling to complete an essay of literary criticism. In his dream that night, a fox appeared that was the size of a wolf, and placed its paw, which seemed to be a bleeding human hand, flat palm-down on the blank space of Hughes’s page, saying, ‘Stop this—you are destroying us.’”

Blistering 1950s gospel.

Larry David confronts the weasel who took his shoes.

“Let the truth be said outright: there are no synonyms, and the same statement can never be repeated in a changed form of words. Where the ignorance of one writer has introduced an unnecessary word into the language, to fill a place already occupied, the quicker apprehension of others will fasten upon it, drag it apart from its fellows, and find new work for it to do….”

“And what happens if you bring a Waffle House waitress back to that smell? She ain’t staying the night, that’s for sure.”

Recorded in Chicago, October 24, 1976, with Jagger wailing on harp; co-produced by Jagger and Ahmet Ertegun.

“As a U.S. Army code intercept operator for Soviet Army transmissions at Landsberg, Germany, he was the first radio operator to pick up the news of the death of Joseph Stalin.”

He was a famous trumpet man from out Chicago way 
He had a boogie style that no one else could play 
He was the top man at his craft 
But then his number came up, and he was gone with the draft.
He's in the army now, a-blowin’ reveille
He's the boogie-woogie bugle boy of Company B…