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Prophet Emil Nolde, 1912 German Woodcut

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Prophet
Emil Nolde, 1912
German
Woodcut

UntitledShannon Stapleton,...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:34:00 -0400

Untitled
Shannon Stapleton, 2001
American
Reuters

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Pietà
Michelangelo, 1498-1499
Italian
Marble
St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City

Audio

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The Falling ManRichard Drew, 2001

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:04:35 -0500

The Falling Man
Richard Drew, 2001

Weniger, aber besser

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 20:56:08 -0500

Dieter Rams

Biography of Satan

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:40:00 -0500

What did Mr. Barclay do then? Was he disarmed? Was he silenced? No. He was shocked. He was so shocked that he visibly shuddered. He said the Satanic Traditioners and Perhapsers and Conjecturers were THEMSELVES sacred! As sacred as their work. So sacred that whoso ventured to mock them or make fun of their work, could not afterward enter any respectable house, even by the back door.

How true were his words, and how wise! How fortunate it would have been for me if I had heeded them. But I was young, I was but seven years of age, and vain, foolish, and anxious to attract attention. I wrote the biography [of Satan], and have never been in a respectable house since.

— Mark Twain, 1909

"The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again..."

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:51:15 -0500

“The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.”

- Ernest Hemingway (via mirroir)
Hemingway killed himself in July, 1961.

"He was talking about how hard the writing was. And I said, lightheartedly, ‘Dave, you’re a genius.’..."

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:31:16 -0500

““He was talking about how hard the writing was. And I said, lightheartedly, ‘Dave, you’re a genius.’ Meaning, people aren’t going to forget about you. You’re not going to wind up in a Wendy’s. He said, ‘All that makes me think is that I’ve fooled you, too.’””

- Mark Costello

He shouted, pounded on the door, tried to force it with his shoulder, and then, looking in at the...

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 11:44:11 -0500

He shouted, pounded on the door, tried to force it with his shoulder, and then, looking in at the windows, saw that the place was empty.

— John Cheever, The Swimmer (1964)

Books to Read

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:06:00 -0500

1. The Ambassadors - Henry James

2. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsen

3. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

4. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

5. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

6. Братья Карамазовы - Фёдор Достоевский

~~7. On the Road - Jack Kerouac~~

8. The Power Broker - Robert Caro

9. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

10. Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

11. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

12. Illuminations(trans. Wyatt Mason) - Arthur Rimbaud (current)

13. Ulysses - James Joyce

14. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

15. Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

16. Julian - Gore Vidal

17. Notes from the Underground - Фёдор Достоевский

18. A Season in Hell (trans. Wyatt Mason) - Arthur Rimbaud

19. The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver

20. Private Empire - Steve Coll

21. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (current)

Olympia, Édouard Manet (1863)

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 21:31:13 -0400

Olympia, Édouard Manet (1863)

Credit: Étienne Carjat, 1871

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:53:00 -0400

Credit: Étienne Carjat, 1871

"What you think has very little to do with anything."

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 21:54:05 -0400

“What you think has very little to do with anything.”

- JR

Photo

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:41:45 -0400

Caro, R. A. The Power Broker, Robert Moses and the Fall of New...

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:01:23 -0400

Caro, R. A. The Power Broker, Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. 1st. New York, NY: Vintage, 1975. 1026. Print.

Video

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:09:23 -0400

"Can you tell me whats the difference between Photoshop and Microsoft Word?"

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:48:30 -0400

“Can you tell me whats the difference between Photoshop and Microsoft Word?”

Clash, Issue 64

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:56:33 -0400

Clash, Issue 64

Велосипедист, Наталья Гончарова 1913

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:24:04 -0400

Велосипедист, Наталья Гончарова

1913

A Poet's Advice

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:38:09 -0400

e. e. cummings

A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feeling through words.

This may sound easy. It isn’t.

A lot of people think or believe or know they feel-but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling-not knowing or believing or thinking.

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.

To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time-and whenever we do it, we’re not poets.

If, at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you’ve written one line of one poem, you’ll be very lucky indeed.

And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world-unless you’re not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.

Does this sound dismal? It isn’t.
It’s the most wonderful life on earth.
Or so I feel.

The High School Spectator - October 26, 1955