Quotable: Malthus and the Moon

The moon is nothing 

But a circumambulatory aphrodisiac

Divinely subsidized to provoke the world

Into a rising birth rate.

- Christopher Fry

The Lady's Not for Burning

From my notebooks, April 5, 1996

Although the heavenly will may work in mysterious ways, these do not apparently include the invisible hand of the free market. 

The divinity may, however, be a Malthusian.

Quotable: Long nights and lonely days

Egyptian Proverb: The worst things:

To be in bed and sleep not,

To want for one who comes not,

To try to please and please not.

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Notebooks

From my own notebooks, April 5, 1996

I have to say, as an insomniac perfectionist in a long-distance relationship of eight years, I can't help but feel that Fitzgerald and the proverbial Egyptian have really hit this nail on the head.

Perhaps my favorite piece of graffito. Ever.

From my beloved college town of Chapel Hill, NC.  Where even graffiti are extraordinary.