December 2011
“Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something...”
– Rumi (thanks again redblackbeerback :)
“But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing...”
– Ludwig Feuerbach (via oncesingularity)
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“Of course, like a spider, you’re in the middle of you’re own web.”
– —James Salter
pianoimpro:
Piano improvisation about Van Gogh’s...
“Perhaps the fetishization of analytical thinking, and the concomitant...”
– from “Man vs. Machine” by Brian Christian in last month’s The Atlantic (via kittensnthings)
Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand... →
theworldisconfused
“In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are...”
– Maryanne Wolf
sheeper:
L’Estate
Vivaldi: Violin Concerto In G...
W. W. Norton: What's So Great About Patrick... →
wwnorton:
Fantasy writer Jo Walton on Tor.com:
The thing that’s so great about these books isn’t that they’re historically accurate and give a picture of the whole planet at the turn of the nineteenth century. They certainly do that, but if that were all I wouldn’t get homesick for them. It’s not the…
“On this date in 1820, a sperm whale attacked a whaling ship off the coast of...”
– via The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor (via thelibrarianontherun)
“The bad lover, like the bad poet, perhaps because of a preoccupation with self,...”
– Stephen Dunn, Walking Light: Essays and Memoirs (via wwnorton)
