Jan
28
“The tide abides for, tarrieth for no man, stays no man, tide nor time tarrieth no man.” Plaster casts from Salisbury Cathedral, at Cornell’s A.D. White Collection. The cathedral contains the world’s oldest working clock, dated AD 1386. This strain of bacteria was cultured from intertidal sand grains from a beach in [...]
Jan
24
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. – Vladimir Nabokov There Is No Word By Tony Hoagland There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store with a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sack that should have been bagged in double layers —so that [...]
Aug
08
In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing… – Jacques Derrida
Aug
07
Flickr user ralphrepo has beautifully restored these early photographs of China, making the images pop out of history with a new life. There are more stunners available here.
Jun
25
I’ve just finished reading Moby Dick. There is so much in this tale that is relevant to today – to this era in which we too send young men off to the farthest corners of the world to bring back the slick luxury of oil. They go on fighting the phantom whales for [...]
Apr
13
Pretty in love with these. Courtesy of the collections of Rikki Nyman at American Vintage Home
Apr
06
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. – Alan Watts
Mar
01
This 1868 Japanese print spoke to the Gear Geek inside of me – that OCD hoarder who could happily spend her life’s savings buying every pen in the world in every color and size.
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