February 2012
Judas goat →
“A Judas goat is a trained goat used at a slaughterhouse and in general animal herding. The Judas goat is trained to associate with sheep or cattle, leading them to a specific destination. In stockyards, a Judas goat will lead sheep to slaughter, while its own life is spared. Judas goats are also used to lead other animals to specific pens and onto trucks. They have fallen out of use in recent...
“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
– Jean de La Fontaine
Damn.
In 2005, Mr. Choe was invited to paint murals on the walls of Facebook’s first offices in Palo Alto, Calif., by Sean Parker, then Facebook’s president. As pay, Mr. Parker offered Mr. Choe a choice between cash in the “thousands of dollars,” according to several people who know Mr. Choe, or stock then worth about the same.
Mr. Choe, who has said that at the time that he thought the idea of...
“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing...”
– Paul Caponigro
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The enemies of Truth
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche Human, All Too Human: Man Alone by Himself
January 2012
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers
