A Boat Against the Current

A cultural "omniblog" covering matters literary as well as theatrical, musical, historical, cinematic(al), etc.

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Quote of the Day (Charlotte Bronte, on ‘Hidden Treasures’ of the Human Heart)

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“The human heart has hidden treasures,     In secret kept, in silence sealed;   The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Photo of the Day: Slow Turn Into Fall, Riverside Park, NYC

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“October’s half over and the leaves have not begun to surrender.”— Poet and nonfiction writer Maureen Ryan Griffin, “Symphony in E...

Movie Quote of the Day (‘High Anxiety,’ With 2 Staffers at the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous)

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[ Dr. Montague has just gotten through a vigorous session of “discipline” meted out by the evil Nurse Diesel, leaving him unable to si...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Quote of the Day (Eric Hoffer, on Why ‘The Ideal Devil is a Foreigner’)

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“Finally, it seems, the ideal devil is a foreigner. To qualify as a devil, a domestic enemy must be given a foreign ancestry. Hitler f...
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Quote of the Day (Joseph Epstein, on ‘The Modest Reputation of the Essay’)

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“One might, at an early age, wish to be a poet or a dramatist or a novelist or even possibly a critic. One somehow wanders or stumbles...
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