- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Configuration Quotes
How things are put together
Some quotes look at a book's configuration, the way its structure and references stretch beyond a title or opening lines into a full Book.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known. It overpowers whoever touches it. By merely doodling a Toothbrush mustache on a poster, you make a political statement.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most mustaches lie waiting for some Clark Gable or Tom Selleck to fix them in the mind. The greatest are identified with a single man, a bad man, usually, who so wrapped his identity with a particular configuration of facial hair that the two became inseparable.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.
- Federalist
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- Nov 07, 2020