James Block

But, if one has dreamed an empire, the empire of man, and if one dares to reflect at what a snail’s pace men are advancing toward the realization of this dream, it is quite possible” that the “activities of man pale to insignificance.” –Henry Miller Lemmings race ahead, focused on following the one in front…

—  Every ending must be followed by the new beginning….(This) cultural ice-age….inevitably produced new definitions….(and) a kind of interiorization that a period of outward expansion had largely ignored….When would the new beginning appear? Where…?                            — Van Wyck Brooks — What we are living through and experiencing now is not the failure of change…