“Bioethics as an intellectual institution is, in significant part, an industry for the production of rationalized — sometimes elegantly rationalized — permission slips in the service of the technological imperative joined to the pursuit of fame and wealth. Such permission slips are also issued in the service of what some believe to be the relief… [Read more…]
November 3, 2010
“Beware of men whose gods are in the sky.” Contrasting cultures with agricultural gods, Carroll Quigley, professor of history, Georgetown; cited in Marc Mailloux, God Still Loves the French: Adventures of a Missionary to France (Longwood, Florida: Xulon, 2006), 22.
September 23, 2010
“Don’t talk about horrid subjects. If one doesn’t talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression, as Harry says, that gives reality to things.” Comment of Dorian Gray; Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003), 111.
September 23, 2010
“Then, suddenly, Time stopped for him. Yes, that blind, slow-breathing thing crawled no more, and horrible thoughts, Time being dead, raced nimbly on in front, and dragged a hideous future from its grave, and showed it to him. He stared at it. Its very horror made him stone.” Concerning Dorian Gray, upon having committed murder;… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
“Perhaps one never seems so much at one’s ease as when one has to play a part.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003), 179.
September 23, 2010
“The next day he did not leave the house, and, indeed, spent most of the time in his own room, sick with a wild terror of dying, and yet indifferent to life itself. The consciousness of being hunted, snared, tracked down, had begun to dominate him. If the tapestry did but tremble in the wind,… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
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