Wheeler: Aren't you the fellow the Mexicans used to call "Brachine"? Dude: That's nearly right. Only it's "Borracho."... Wheeler: I don't think I ever seen you like this before. Dude: You mean sober. You're probably right. You know what "Borracho" means? Wheeler: My Spanish ain't too good. Dude: It means drunk. No, if the name bothers ya' they used to call me Dude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wee Willie Winkie rins through the town, Up stairs and doon stairs in his nicht-gown,... Tirling at the window, crying at the lock, \'Are the weans in their bed, for it's now ten o'clock?'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Avrum was there in the audience, I believe, in Berkeley on the afternoon in 1941 when, in conformity with the law subsequently enu...nciated by Murphy, what could go wrong, epistemologically, did. G.E. Moore was delivering the Howison Lecture in Wheeler Auditorium, which had a handsome coffered ceiling inset with glass panels. Giving a local angle to his defence of common sense, Moore declared that among the things he knew there and then was that light from the sun was streaming through the roof. Most in the audience were aware, however, that the glass panels were diffusers for electrical illumination; the roof of the building was solid and opaque. Someone had the temerity to point this out to Moore in the question period. He responded, "Oh dear me!" and went on to the next question.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come all you rounders if you want to hear A story 'bout a brave engineer;... Casey Jones, that was the rounder's name On a heavy eight-wheeler he rode to fame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bernstein: "Girls delightful in Cuba stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery but don't feel right spending your money stop.... There is no war in Cuba. Signed Wheeler." Any answer? Charles Foster Kane: Yes--Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This age-old truth I to thee impart Act according to the dictates of your art... Because if you don't no one else is going to And that person isn't likely to be you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, it is a good experience, to divest oneself of some tested ideals, some old standbys, And even finding nothing to put in... their place is a good experience, Preparing one, as it does, for the consternation that is to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For later in the vast gloom of cities, only there you learn How the ideas were good only because they had to die,... Leaving you alone and skinless, a drawing by Vesalius.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »