May 2012
16 posts
April 2012
15 posts
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Follow People If You Like Their Music →
Love [this piece](
»Neither of us was wrong, and we learned some things about each other that night.
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Brilliant idea. →
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Formalism is dead.
The thing no longer matters. Always the story attached to thing. Maybe it never was the thing?
March 2012
58 posts
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Distraction. →
Spot on.
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“Everything we are is due to chance and trickery, and this height we boast isn’t...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.
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“What could be stranger than the silence one encounters when addressing a...”
– Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death.
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“Physical reality seems to recede in proportion as man’s symbolic activity...”
– Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death.
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“And there are two great forms of art: one that speaks to our deepest soul, the...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.
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“Just as Christianity was but the prophetic degeneration of a debased...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.
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“Photography seemed to me, as I stood there in the white gallery with its rows of...”
– Teju Cole, Open City.
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“The rest of us, living animal lives of varying complexity, cross the stage as...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.
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“Tomorrow we will face the guillotine. Or if not tomorrow, then the day after....”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.
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“Thus, it takes some digging to get at them, to grasp, for example, that a clock...”
– Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death.
