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Gardens of Unearthly Delights →
“Marina Warner pursues the enigmas of imaginative desires in The Arabian Nights”
I really want to read this book. Even the review is beautifully written. I’ve been interested in the connection between magic, alchemy, and science for a while. Recently I went to the Love & Devotion - From Persia & Beyond exhibit at the State Library of Victoria in Australia. It was cool. They had very old, beautifully written and illustrated copies of 1001 Nights.
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T Magazine: Viggo Talks and Talks →
“High up in an apartment block in Toronto, Viggo Mortensen was padding around barefoot, cleaning up the kitchen after lunch and speaking, in his soft-voiced way, about his longing for immortality.”
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i’m so glad i live in a world where there are octobers.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also. But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.
Herman Melville in Moby-Dick (1851) (via predatorywaspobserver)
Amen.
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Vasilisa the Wise in front of Babayaga’s house.
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What we are supposed to do.: 60. →
My truck hits the darkness of the tunnel hard. The air sucks through the open windows, and the steering wheel shakes. This is my truck and she is red and small. No air conditioning, a broken taillight, and speakers that cough dust when playing rock and roll songs. And she’s certainly not fast…
DAY 12: whatever tickles your fancy
whatwearesupposedtodo can write. And of the hundred or so (so far) in his wonderful series of short literary pieces, #60 is one of my favorites.
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There are three cities in the United States: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans; the rest are just Cleveland.
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I was a teenage illiterate - NYTimes Essay →
At the age of 26, when I returned to New York after an inglorious stab at graduate work in medieval history on the frozen steppes of Chicago, I had a horrifying realization: I was illiterate. At least, I was as close to illiterate as a person with over 20 years of education could possibly be…
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