“Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.” KnowsNeedsMightDesireNationsObjectsPoliticianNewsBurningPresidentialTopicsAnalystsSlipperyBipartisanship Author:Thomas Frank
“Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.” TwoDesireObjectsBurningAbsentBurning Desire Author:Roland Barthes
“Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects.” NightFallObjectsRuinsBurningAbandonedEmbers Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.” ChildrenBeliefCausesGenerationsObjectsTaughtWillingBurningNationalismVenerationFatherlandMotherland Book:The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
“Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.” MenFeelsMadeBookDesignObjectsCommunicationMiracleComplexesMy FavoriteSmellBurning Author:Ken Baumann