March 2012
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The Fall
There was a man who found two leaves and came indoors holding them out saying to his parents that he was a tree. To which they said then go into the yard and do not grow in the living-room as your roots may ruin the carpet. He said I was fooling I am not a tree and he dropped his leaves. But his parents said look it is fall.
- Russell Edson, collected in The Tunnel:...
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Watchcuriositycounts:
Trailer for The Universal Language, a new documentary tracing the history of Esperanto, the artificial language created in the late 1800s by a Polish eye doctor with the vision of a global tongue.
My dad has an entire bookshelf dedicated to dictionaries and phrase books. Sure it was the language of the future.
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“I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone.”
– Neil Young
“Clarity, completeness, quintessence, quiet. No noise, no schmutz, no schmerz, no...”
– Ad Reinhardt
WatchTrailer for “Damsels in Distress.” The fourth film by Whit Stillman.
WatchStephen Colbert talks to Carl Wilson about his book Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste.
Good Valentine’s Day reading.
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