“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” If George Orwell had seen ahead to today’s scramble to make black —but not white —a proper no| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
“Look at the masterpiece, and not at the frame — and not at the faces of other people looking at the frame.” - Vladimir Nabokov in his lectures on Russian literature, opposing the primary type of academic and popular criticism: what we might call the demographic-reactive type. The overwhelming majority of opinion derives less from any internal response to a work of art (or political idea or cultural trend) than from what sorts of reactions we imagine on other faces looking at the frame,...| Meta is Murder
The Regina Academies have high academic expectations for our students, but rigor and leisure are not mutually exclusive. If anything, leisure, properly understood, is the complement to rigor.| The Regina Academies