Archives for February 17, 2015

From 2005:

Eleven years ago I read an amusing book called Going, Going, Gone: Vanishing Americana that catalogued the long march of obsolescence through postwar America. It occurred to me as I opened my medicine cabinet this morning that the time had come for someone to publish a new book on the same subject. To that end, here are a few of the things I no longer use, do, or see….

Read the whole thing here.

“People who spout their emotions like blood exhaust me, and so I can take Russians only in very small doses, like a liqueur.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (quoted in Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday)