November 22, 2009
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’ (…) All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.’

‘There is correct English: that is not slang.’

‘I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.’
George Eliot, Middlemarch. (via msodradek) (via tragos) •
November 20, 2009
This photograph is reproduced on the wall of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.  If I recall correctly, I read there that it’s the only photograph we have of the artist.  Thank you for posting and reblogging this gem! tragos: petersantiago: crashinglybeautiful: Van Gogh and Emil Bernard (All Things Amazing) Crash, you’re an unprecedented sleuth of all things amazing…Peter.

This photograph is reproduced on the wall of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.  If I recall correctly, I read there that it’s the only photograph we have of the artist.  Thank you for posting and reblogging this gem!

tragos:

petersantiago:

crashinglybeautiful:

Van Gogh and Emil Bernard (All Things Amazing)

Crash, you’re an unprecedented sleuth of all things amazing…Peter.

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November 17, 2009
Elke Sommer and Sharon Tate from The Wrecking Crew (a movie I have not seen). Failbetter, thanks for leading me to www.doctormacro1.info Great scans.

Elke Sommer and Sharon Tate from The Wrecking Crew (a movie I have not seen).

Failbetter, thanks for leading me to www.doctormacro1.info

Great scans.

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The Marx Brothers, from their great film Duck Soup. Failbetter, thanks for leading me to www.doctormacro1.info

The Marx Brothers, from their great film Duck Soup.

Failbetter, thanks for leading me to www.doctormacro1.info

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November 16, 2009
Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death," by Stuart McMillen
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November 15, 2009
tragos: songandstamp: Submitted by (who else?) Raynor Ganan. Thank you songandstamp and Raynor Ganan. Possible ironies here: The stamp is Austrian The owl (of MInerva I assume) graces the bottom-left corner Combination of 1. and 2.

tragos:

songandstamp:

Submitted by (who else?) Raynor Ganan.

Thank you songandstamp and Raynor Ganan.

Possible ironies here:

  1. The stamp is Austrian
  2. The owl (of MInerva I assume) graces the bottom-left corner
  3. Combination of 1. and 2.
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November 14, 2009
“ I think our efforts should focus more on women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps, in some Stockholm Syndrome Effect, often form the most fervent advocates of the very thing that degrades them. I believe that in the end it will be women who will turn this around. This should be the final stage of feminism. For a feminist to still believe in God is like a freed slave still living on the plantation.
Matthew Chapman, The AAI 2007 Convention: Disc 2  (4 hours, 31 minutes)
(AAI = “Atheist Alliance International”) •
November 13, 2009
Umberto Eco on Lists
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enormousair: libraryland: kvetchlandia: Library of a Worker’s Club, designed by Alexander Rodchenko, Moscow 1920s Is that a copy of Forbes I see on the magazine rack?

enormousair:

libraryland:

kvetchlandia:

Library of a Worker’s Club, designed by Alexander Rodchenko, Moscow 1920s

Is that a copy of Forbes I see on the magazine rack?

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enormousair: libraryland: centuriespast: travellinglight: Signer: Marquis de Sade | Date: 10/30/1767 | Price: $4,375.00 Autograph Letter Signed, Wednesday, 30 October 1767, to Monsieur Carillie, rue St. Honoré in Paris. “Kindly provide to the carrier of this note what it is necessary of the black fabric in order to dress my five servants as you did me during the mourning of my father last year, as well as the same quantity of fabric needed for the harnesses of which there will be four…” The Raab Collection “…and please see to it that my page is frigged most expertly by whatever young libertine is at hand, and then instruct him to serve you coffee from a beshitted chamber pot. Cheers!—the Marquis.” (my translation)

enormousair:

libraryland:

centuriespast:

travellinglight:

Signer: Marquis de Sade | Date: 10/30/1767 | Price: $4,375.00

Autograph Letter Signed, Wednesday, 30 October 1767, to Monsieur Carillie, rue St. Honoré in Paris. “Kindly provide to the carrier of this note what it is necessary of the black fabric in order to dress my five servants as you did me during the mourning of my father last year, as well as the same quantity of fabric needed for the harnesses of which there will be four…”

The Raab Collection

“…and please see to it that my page is frigged most expertly by whatever young libertine is at hand, and then instruct him to serve you coffee from a beshitted chamber pot. Cheers!—the Marquis.” (my translation)

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