Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It representsa moment… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
“My little Matthew, Isabelle at once snapped back at him, when two people agree, it means one of them is redundant” — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
“And my Black bird, still not quitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On that pallid bust -- still flitting through my dolorous domain; But it cannot stop from gazing for it truly finds amazing That, by artful paraphrasing, I such rhyming can sustain-- Notwithstanding my lost symbol I such rhyming still sustain-- Though I shan't try it again!” — Gilbert Adair Copy Share
The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
“You read Salinger in Italian? Molto chic’ ‘I was told a good way to learn a language was to read translations of books you… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame --… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
