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photo friday: "symbol"

This is the controversial sculpture meant to represent the city where I reside, Rockford, Illinois. I say "controversial," because the name of it is Symbol, and yet no one seems able to agree on what the meaning of the "symbol" is -- leading, of course, to a debate about whether it's truly a "symbol" in the first place, etc. So there you have it: "Symbol" by Alexander Liberman.

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Huxley on the incredible

Everything's incredible, if you can skin off the crust of obviousness our habits put upon it. ~ Aldous Huxley

WWJD? about the Narnia movie

In deciding whether they should take their children to see the forthcoming Narnia movie, my esteemed colleague Aaron Wolf and his wife asked themselves "WWJD?" -- as in, "What Would Jack Do?" Among some other insightful (and delightful) things he had to say on Cindy Swanson's blog about The Chronicles of Narnia, Aaron shared the following quote from "Jack," as Lewis was nicknamed:

[N]othing can be more disastrous than the view that the cinema can and should replace popular written fiction. The elements which it excludes are precisely those which give the untrained mind its only access to the imaginative world. There is death in the camera.~ C.S. Lewis