Saturday, 25 January 2025
quote [ The Flemish woodcut artist Frans Masereel wrote the most compelling wordless novels ]
The Flemish spirit alive in each town
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Monday, 13 January 2025
quote [ Through his descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches Zahn shows readers the workings of the camera obscura and magic lantern ]
People concertina to my private magic lantern move for me
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Monday, 30 December 2024
quote [ Sumana Roy ponders the linguistic and aesthetic significance of ?etceterization.? ]
Etcetera-nough, etcetera-nough
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Sunday, 15 December 2024
quote [ Created by artist Charles Green Shaw between the wars the book features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails ]
When I rhyme it's a part of the recipe
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Friday, 29 November 2024
quote [ He undoubtedly was aware of his increased productivity, but as to the quality and substance of the content, as its creator, he perhaps was not best placed to judge. ]
Great quotes on how our tools transform our thoughts.
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quote [ Rains of blood and frogs, mysterious disappearances, baffling objects in the sky: these were the anomalies that fascinated Charles Fort in his Book of the Damned. ?For every five people who read this book?, wrote one reviewer, ?four will go insane?. Joshua Blu Buhs recounts Fort?s early life, unfinished manuscripts (?X?, ?Y?), and the philosophical monism that informed his research. ]
Place your palm upon the book of the damned
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Monday, 25 November 2024
quote [ Just publish a story about her! And her life! And what she thinks about it! It seems like a pretty good story! This blog is over! ]
Someone pulled off the coup of getting Cormac McCarthy's muse to speak out followed by the even bigger coup of turning the resulting article into an internet phenomenon.
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Tuesday, 5 November 2024
quote [ synonyms, antonyms, definitions, sentences, thesaurus ]
Searching for the right words ? thought of this when stv179 wondered about the meaning of bulwark.
Are there other thesaurus datasets out there? thumb via Clawmarks
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Friday, 25 October 2024
quote [ There was a time, however?not all that long ago?when you couldn?t Google it or ask Siri or whatever cyber equivalent comes next. You had to do it the hard way?by consulting reference books, indexes, catalogs, almanacs, statistical abstracts, and myriad other printed sources. Or you could save yourself all that time and trouble by taking the easiest available shortcut: You could call me.
[?] Actually, we didn?t know all that stuff; we just knew how to find it. ] Accounts of looking up stuff for people in the 80s.
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