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“The meaning of Shabbat is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel [I like to think that this is the ethos of science. It’s just as interesting from a secular viewpoint.]
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Leandro Katz @MoMA
The decoded sentence reads, “When we pulverize words, what is left is neither mere noise nor arbitrary, pure elements, but still other words, reflection of an invisible and yet indelible representation: this is the myth in which we now transcribe the most obscure and real powers of language.”
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-19) →
Cults (46)
The Dear Hunter (14)
of Montreal (12)
Phoenix (11)
Throw Me the Statue (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Tally Hall, I love you. →
Click to stream the new album!
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I never get mail, but
today I got postcards from an Erin, a Taryn, and a Karen.
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A five year old girl just explained to me how to...
My family has interesting dinner parties.
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Christina Zhang is a genius
All of this year has been about looking ahead, but back in October I was far too stressed to be able to look upon myself in the present at the same time. To look ahead without being able to look left and right is, as anyone who has crossed a street knows, dangerous. And these are times of high traffic.
(via ana-ng)
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5 Things You Can Do To Make A Quiet Person Feel... →
frontierpsychiatrist:
Everyone, please stop doing all of these things to me.
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Cage III— Free Show
B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions/Infernatron Animation Concepts, Canada. Cosgrove Watt, P.A. Heaven, Everard Maynell, Pam Heath; partial animation; 35 mm.; 65 minutes; black and white; sound. The figure of Death (Heath) presides over the front entrance of a carnival sideshow whose spectators watch performers undergo unspeakable degradations so grotesquely compelling that the spectators’...
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The Sonnets to Orpheus [1]
And where there had been just a makeshift hut to receive the music, a shelter nailed up out of their darkest longing, with an entryway that shuddered in the wind— you built a temple deep inside their hearing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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The Fearful Sphere of Pascal, Jorge Luis Borges →
“For one man, for Giordano Bruno, the rupture of the stellar vaults was a liberation. He proclaimed, in the Cena de la ceneri, that the world is the infinite effect of an infinite cause, and that divinity is close by, “for it is within us even more than we ourselves are within ourselves.” He searched for words to tell men of Copernican space, and on one famous page he...
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Song of Myself [23]
Endless unfolding of words of ages! And mine a word of the modern, the word En-Masse.
A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.
I accept Reality and dare not question it, Materialism first and last imbuing.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-5) →
Tune-Yards (14)
The Morning Benders (11)
Broken Bells (10)
Karen O and the Kids (6)
Architecture in Helsinki (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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