Books, research material, and web resources from Odd Salon LOGIC
In seeking inspiration for Odd Salon FOLLY, we looked to the words of Desidirous Erasmus and the intimate link between folly to happiness and to wisdom, and to the very "play of life".
The author Robert Louis Stevenson mused on the idea of El Dorado as the ultimate unobtainable dream, a stand in for all of those personal quests in our lives where the perfect version always remains out of reach.
Our memories are tricky things, adapting and evolving, sometimes unduly influenced by outside sources. Our own minds often can not be trusted to hold anything related to objective reality. But in a essay written in 2013 for the New York Review of books, neurologist Oliver Sacks, himself the author of many wonderful explorations of memory and loss, wrote on what is perhaps a silver lining.
In February 1928 Weird Tales magazine publishes "The Call of Cthulhu" and Lovecraft's most celebrated story narrowly escaped the scrap heap.
The words of the poet Horace remind us that although life is short and the future uncertain, to savor the moments we do have, and seize the day. For as…
