Intellectual Inquiry Prints

5pm Happy Hour. 6pm discussion: what is true happiness?

Petr Yakovlevich Chaadayev

Apples for sale

"It's such a lovely day!"

Paul Ree

“Who’s a good boy that doesn’t feel obliged to prove it by holding too many interesting literary and social opinions?”

Miss America IQ Pageant

"I understand the revisionists are hot on your trail, Professor Delauney."

'Single math professor in search of an intelligent woman. Send an example of your favorite equation.'

Think Tank

A man with Dwarfism is reading Little Women.

"So, what are you reading?"

The Book Lover

"Now that was post-modern sex."

Assertiveness

The revolution that hit Hollywood hardest:The Thinking Pictures."

'"Einstein, Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer...but you look through the Old Testament and through the Talmud, and there's not a word about physics."

'What do you mean 'theoretically'? Everything we do is theoretical.'

'No, you weren't there. But in your expert opinion as a certified brainiac, do you think he did it?'

The Economy of Ideas

"You have an air of Camille Paglia about you."

'Between you and me Wizard, is it true that you intellectuals have pointed heads?'

Caricature of Noam Chomsky

"The problem is you say Nietzsche and expect everything to be just peachy."

"O.K. What part of 'malignant regression and pathogenic reintrojection as a defense against psychic decompensation' don't you understand?"

Lost and Profound.

Jacques Lacan

Capital

George Santayana

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

"You're terrific, Katia. You think like 'The New York Review of Books' and look like 'Vogue.'"

'Thoreau had his Walden Pond, C.J. has his water cooler.'

"Is it just me, or do these sculptural forms of light and shadow make you think about the ephemeral nature of life, the spirituality of the moment eclipsing our futile quest for cheese?"

Brains

Toni Morrison