The Fridge Idea

A silly idea to introduce a little culture into our apartment by posting literary quotes or odd bits of poetry on our apartment refrigerator has turned into an outreach effort to enlighten and stimulated the minds of our friends and the casual passersby. Each roommate will submit a weekly quote or image from literature, history, art, cinema, etc. You are invited to explore our weekly entries and to vote on the entry that will adorn our fridge for the next week. Perhaps you may begin by considering the cultural, historical, or artistic significance of each entry; what do you think we should “digest” this week. The selection criteria should remain quite elastic and be driven by you. Really, we just hope that on occasion we might inspire you to revisit a book you’ve set aside, memorize a bit of verse, rent a movie you haven’t seen, or stroll through a museum gallery. Enjoy!

Monday, March 16, 2009

It's a fridge off

So we have our first fridge tie. I'm not sure what we will do, but this week I propose a 24 hour fridge off. Please see the poll to vote for one of the two finalists this week. Entries for next week should also be up in the next 24 hours. We know you can't wait.

Entry 2

I walked a mile with Pleasure,
She chattered all the way;
But left me none the wiser,
for all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow
Ne'er a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned from her
when Sorrow walked with me!

-Robert Browning Hamilton

Entry 4

The fact is that neither of us knows anything beautiful and good, but he thinks he does know when he doesn’t, and I don’t know and don’t think I do: so I am wiser than he is by only this trifle that what I do not know I don’t think I do.

Plato quoting Socrates in Apology (The Apology of Socrates)

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