Quote of the Day for 2016-07-30

"All art, which strove to make the sensations of a moment soul-satisfying, was dimly felt to be irreligious. For art performed what religion only promised."

— James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) The Cream of the Jest, chapter 26 (1917)

Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses by John William Waterhouse (1891)

Quote of the Day for 2016-04-15

"People never want to be told anything they do not believe already."

— James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) The Cream of the Jest, chapter 13 (1917)

Donald Trump at CPAC in Washington, D.C. (2011) Photo by Gage Skidmore, remix by Max Fleishman for The Daily Dot