Sunday, October 5, 2008

first Sunday in October

10-05-08--The US is too isolated, too insular. They don’t translate enough and don’t really participate in the big dialogue of literature. That ignorance is restraining.—Horace Engdahl, secretary of the Swedish Academy which awards the Nobel prize in literature, NYT Wk3

--Until we get our financial act together, our motto is going to be: “Swedish spoken here—or Arabic or Chinese or German.”—Thomas Friedman, NYT WK9

—In Raleigh, executives at RBC Bank canceled the parachuters that were supposed to spear at the grand openings of its new headquarters, saying it was not an appropriate time to have people jumping off a bank building. –NYT A16

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