From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

The text reads: "It's not that we get up on the wrong side of the bed, but rather on the wrong side of the dream.  Freud identified the two basic sides of a dream: manifest and latent."

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

The text reads, "Before a reputation can precede, it must accompany oneself. —Jonathan Caws-Elwitt"

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

The text reads: "Putting the pushcart before the locomotive leaves the horse to [do his own thing mostly]." —Jeff Hawkins

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

The text reads: "Keep a mind straight on a thought, and you will see how it bends down, just ever so slightly, at the horizon. —Geof Huth"

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook, secretly in honor of a certain K.

Here's a quotation from our Spotted in the Wild blog that we wished to share here, too:

"What else is the world than a figure? Life itself is but a symbol. You must be a wise man if you can tell us what is reality." —William Somerset Maugham, The Magician

We've long collected summations of the meaning of life, and we couldn't resist sharing this marvelous one by the immortal John Cowper Powys in his novel Porius.  Note that he distills the meaning of life down to one key word:

What an absurd nonsense it all was!  Why couldn't people see that the whole business was a lively, amusing, horrible, comical, pitiful, cruel Incomprehensibility?  For that was what it was.  Not a tragedy, for it was too pitiful.  Not a farce, for it was too cruel.  Not a mystery, for the physical was too tick, and our capacity for response to everything else too quickly at its limit.

It clearly couldn't be very serious or matter very much.  We were all comparatively soon dead; and meanwhile life could be deliciously pleasant and appallingly unpleasant.  It could be endurable.  It could unendurable.  It could be first the one and then the other.  Good and evil in it were hopelessly mixed up, as also were justice and injustice.

An Incomprehensibility—that's the only word for it!  And what applies to men applies to the gods also.  "If I could magic myself into an eagle of Zeus and carry all the people up through those black clouds into the moonlight on my wings, would I do it?" he thought.  "No, I would not do it!  Why should I do it?"

It would only be from one incomprehensible dream into another!

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

The text reads: "Blind thumbsucking never produced the great American novel. —Jeff Hawkins."

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook, for the author of The Can of Yams:

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

The text reads, "Outside of the cow of our knowledge.  Inspired by Gary Barwin."

An invisible moon, whether hidden by clouds or by a film of vapor or by the horizon itself, is "possessed of the power to substitute a totally different element as a darkness disperser from that of either daylight or torchlight" —John Cowper Powys, Porius.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

The text reads: "There's the vein within which flows the blood of kings, the heart that beats a reign of truth and honor, the lungs that breathe free fire. —Tom Howe"

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook, inspired by Jeff Hawkins:

The text reads: "The 'humble fork' does not refer to any dessert utensil.  Dainty forks are servile to no one."

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

The text reads, "Like gingivitis, the root of sustainable agriculture lies just below the gumline. —Jeff Hawkins."

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

The caption reads, "From whence the owner vanishes into the immeasurable Hades of all the forgotten crustaceans of the world. —John Cowper Powys, Porius.)

"We're like handshadows illuminated by stars, and the shadow on the wall, lit by a star, is really a shadow of what isn't us." —Gary Barwin

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook, for Navid Sinaki:

The title reads, "Grief makes a pomegranate split."

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook, inspired by Jeff Hawkins:

The text reads: "If there's one thing a ball of string isn't good for, it's aligning a scope with the polar axis of your home planet. —Jeff Hawkins."