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"From mirror to mirror—this is what I happen to dream of—the totality of things, the whole, the entire universe, divine wisdom could concentrate their luminous rays into a single mirror." — Italo Calvino, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (A book absolutely not-to-be-missed.) |
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Can you decode this eerie lost prophecy of Nostradamus? Black rivers spill down the cross of red. Moonstruck hordes gather to see the face of god. "Black rivers" refers to ink, to be spilled by Hermann Rorschach, a psychoanalyst from Switzerland (hence "cross of red," home of the Red Cross organization). The "moonstruck hordes" are analysands ("lunacy" traditionally being associated with the full moon), and what they see in the inkblots distinguishes psychosis from mere neurosis.
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Beats look cooler than any other Bohemian. They are the toughest, most tautly attired of all the Bohemians. Indigo, white, putty and black are the main colors, black being the most dominant. Black jeans, black jackets, black wingtips, black sneakers, black ballet slippers, black berets, black sweaters, black shirts, black coffee. . . .
Outerwear is generally the same for Beats of all sexes and will include a trench coat in black, navy or beige, a camel’s- hair coat from a thrift shop ar a navy blue peacoat. A corduroy jacket may appear from time to time in the academic as well as the non- academic Beat wardrobe. This will be brown, forest green or burgundy.
—Laren Stover, Bohemian Manifesto: A Field Guide to Living on the Edge, 2004.
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Jeff wrote: Hmmm . . . black aside, A Field Guide to Living on the Edge may be just the sort of book I need.
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"What does the name of an author on the jacket matter? Let us move forward in thought to three thousand years from now. Who knows which books from our period will be saved, and who knows which authors' names will be remembered? Some books will remain famous but will be considered anonymous works, as for us the epic of Gilgamesh; other authors' names will still be well known, but none of their works will survive, as was the case with Socrates; or perhaps all the surviving books will be attributed to a single, mysterious author, like Homer." — Italo Calvino, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (A work of genius!)
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Did you know that International Swear Like Shakespeare Day is Nov. 27, 2009? We're honored to announce that SwearLikeShakespeare.com is featuring our illustration of curses of Shakespearean proportions. If an infinite number of monkeys type for an infinite amount of time, will they will eventually produce every possible Shakespearean insult? This is our question, not Wilfried Hou Je Bek's, but he did inspire it. Here's a link to a PDF of a maledicta book produced by a group of Sulawesi Macaque monkeys: Notes Towards the Complete Words of Shakespeare. |
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Our Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound was featured this week at Library Everywhere. Thanks, Mandy! --- Mandy Durham wrote: No- thank YOU! I have been unicorn-obsessed from a very early age, and am still reeling from the discovery of your breathtaking Field Guide.
I work for a public library and am now trying to ensure we have at least one copy of every book you've written. Really enchanting, thought-provoking work.
Now I'm unicorn AND Craig Conley-obsessed.
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