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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. -william blakecrooked road
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“On about February 14th the Americans came over, followed by the R.A.F. Their combined labors killed 250,000 people in twenty-four hours and destroyed all of Dresden — possibly the world’s most beautiful city. But not me.”
-Kurt Vonnegut’s letter to his family after release from Slaughterhouse Five in Dresden (Read the rest)
Daily Drop Cap “an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere.”
No matter how keenly, how admirably, a story, a piece of music, a picture is discussed and analyzed, there will be minds that remain blank and spines that remain unkindled. A poor man is robbed of his overcoat; another poor fellow is turned into a beetle — so what?
There is no rational answer to so what. We can take the story apart, we can find out how the bits fit, how one part of the pattern responds to the other; but you have to have in you some cell, some gene, some germ that will vibrate in answer to sensations that you can neither define, nor dismiss.
— Vladimir Nabokov, Lecture on Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”
Stella Artois and The Auteurs presents Le Recyclage De Luxe Online Film Festival: featuring 7 essential French New Wave films, for free, this week (Dec. 15th - 21st)
More info here: http://www.theauteurs.com/stellaartois
It takes an enormous act of violence to begin something.
Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Young Workman’s Letter”
(via tanya77)(parisreview)(langer)
part of the tumblr film festival. beautiful. [via chioke nassor’s notes]
popcandy : “Wow, Wonderwall is on YouTube. Not the Oasis album, the crazy Jane Birkin flick (w/George Harrison soundtrack)”
I think most writers have a failure of character, a failure to accept what’s being assigned to you to write. And that often what we’re most talented at we resist, because we think it’s silly, or small, or not good enough.
