December 2011
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“—the mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms…”
– David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas
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“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they...”
– David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas
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“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. Yet...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald | Tender is the Night | pg. 176
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“‘The soul is a verb.’ He impales a lit candle on a spike. ‘Not...”
– David Mitchell | The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet | pg. 146
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“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald | Tender is the Night | pg. 191
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“You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a long time that actually did look like...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald | Tender is the Night | pg. 24
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“The alphabet of
the trees
is fading in the
song of the leaves
the crossing...”
– William Carlos Williams | “The Botticellian Trees”
“Give me truths,
For I am weary of the surfaces…”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson | excerpt from “Blight”
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Holiday Reads: Which first?
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
daytripper by Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá
New Selected Poems by Mark Strand
Voluntary Servitude by Mark Wunderlich
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“all day the stars watch from long ago…”
– W.S. Merwin
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“All day the stars watch from long ago
my mother said I am going now
when you...”
– W.S. Merwin | “Rain Light” | The New Yorker | March 3, 2008
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“Settling foreign to all but the sun
and rising to the moon. One, a horizon...”
– A. Lightless | excerpt from “Tipping Over Shadows”
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[npr] Beirut in Concert →
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“In one of his last notes he mentions the chaos of the universe and says that...”
– Roberto Bolaño | 2666 | pg. 736
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“How easily our loved ones
leave us, speeding into sunsets,
maiming us with...”
– (via ahuntersheart)
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“When you see them
tell them that I am still here,
that I stand on one leg...”
– Mark Strand | “Breath” | from Darker
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“How I would like to believe in tenderness ——
The face of the effigy, gentled by...”
– Sylvia Plath | excerpt from “The Moon and the Yew Tree”
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“the gods wait to delight
in you.”
– Charles Bukowski | excerpt from the “The Laughing Heart”
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[oed] eccentric
etymology: < late Latin eccentricus , < Greek ἔκκεντρος eccentric as opposed to concentric ( < ἐκ out of + κέντρον centre)
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“Stand and live,
The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.”
– Robert Lowell | “Where the Rainbow Ends” | lines 28-30
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“From all old seamy throats of elders, musty books, I’ve salvaged not a word. In...”
– Cormac McCarthy | Suttree | pg. 14
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WatchHow can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. In this visually stunning talk, Allan Jones shows how his team is mapping which genes are turned on in each tiny region, and how it all connects up.
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[WIRED] How Does the Brain Perceive Art? →
“In 1995, the Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted a controversial exhibition entitled “Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt,” in which works considered to be genuine Rembrandts were displayed alongside those done by his students and admirers. (These lesser paintings are often dismissed as “the school of Rembrandt.”) The point of the exhibition was to reveal the fine line between genius and imitation,...
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WatchThe Bay Lights is an iconic light sculpture designed by internationally renowned artist Leo Villareal. The sculpture will be installed and illuminated over the course of the Bay Bridge’s 75th Anniversary.
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“Someone, I think Philip Guston, said that, if you’re an artist, every artist...”
– Peter Schjeldahl | The New Yorker | February 16, 2009
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“From our home on the Earth, we look out into the distances and strive to imagine...”
– Edwin P. Hubble
Astronomer
1889-1953
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#omfgmccarthy
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“Ourself behind ourself, concealed—
Should startle most—”
– Emily Dickinson, from “[One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted]” (via proustitute)
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“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their...”
– Herman Melville | Moby Dick
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