More Aphorisms by Lori Ellison
Posted on September 24, 2008
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You may remember Lori Ellison from a previous posting of her aphorisms here, in October of 2007. In addition to being an aphorist, she is an artist, voracious consumer of aphorists’ biographies, and lifetime devotee of independent bookstores, one of her current haunts being Spoonbill & Sugartown in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Here is a selection of recent work, beginning with a timely reflection on matters economic:
Creative accounting is the oxymoron that ate the global economy.
There comes a time when having painted oneself into an intensely personal corner makes for some very good paintings.
Pleasures are things that we take, whereas joy is in moments that we are given.
Most people go to soothsayers in hopes of hearing something soothing.
Falling on one’s face periodically and frequently is preferable to spending life nodding one’s head like a bobble toy in the back of an automobile.
Eccentricity is a more local, vernacular, and benevolent form of notoriety.
Art now is made with much exercise and little vitality.
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The nineties was when the Chinese Walls on Wall Street became a two way limousine service.
This is esoterica I would never have become aware of without temping on Wall Street and reading books like Crystal Graef’s “In Search of Excess” about pay packages and golden parachutes for CEOs after moving back to the US from France where I only volunteered in an English language bookstore a little while. Not an pahorism, but a rule of thumb from Andrew Carnegie in the first pages of the book - An employer of a company no matter the size, should not get paid more than thirty two times the amount of the lowest paid employee.
American currency has been in trouble since the motto “in gold we trust” was changed to “in God we trust”
All bookstores can now use the science fiction writers’ preferred phrase speculative fiction to rename the part of the Business section that deserves that title.
Wall Street was the true speculative fiction.