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Books to remember: Shukhov felt pleased with life as he went to sleep. A lot of good things had happened that day. He hadn’t been thrown in the hole. The gang hadn’t been dragged off to Sotsgorodok [settlement]. He’d swiped the extra gruel at dinnertime. The foreman had got a good rate for the job. He’d enjoyed working on the wall. He hadn’t been caught with the blade at the searchpoint. He’d earned a bit from Tsezar that evening. And he’d bought his tobacco. The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one. Just one of the three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days of his sentence, from bell to bell. The extra three were for leap years. From: One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1962)

Books to remember:

Shukhov felt pleased with life as he went to sleep. A lot of good things had happened that day. He hadn’t been thrown in the hole. The gang hadn’t been dragged off to Sotsgorodok [settlement]. He’d swiped the extra gruel at dinnertime. The foreman had got a good rate for the job. He’d enjoyed working on the wall. He hadn’t been caught with the blade at the searchpoint. He’d earned a bit from Tsezar that evening. And he’d bought his tobacco.

The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one.

Just one of the three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days of his sentence, from bell to bell.

The extra three were for leap years.

From: One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1962)

this is not a man, it’s an icon.  mostexerent: My father used to say, ‘Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.’   -Cary Grant, photo by Richard Avendon. morninggloryandmidnightsun:

this is not a man, it’s an icon. 

mostexerent:

My father used to say, ‘Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.’

  -Cary Grant, photo by Richard Avendon.

morninggloryandmidnightsun:

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i12bent: German artist Gerhard Richter (b. Feb. 9, 1932) is incredibly versatile and productive. He turns 79 today… Above: Bach 4, 1992 - oil on canvas (Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden)

i12bent:

German artist Gerhard Richter (b. Feb. 9, 1932) is incredibly versatile and productive. He turns 79 today…

Above: Bach 4, 1992 - oil on canvas (Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden)

Mad Hatters' Review

mhr is not just a journal, it’s a multi-media cocktail of awesome art, audio and literature. it comes out of NYC and is edited by carol novack (fiction) and ann bogle (non-fiction). it’s the big apple of online zineness, a different, larger, juicier kind of html giant connected to yet another artists’ collective. mhr got a blog, too.

« a really innovative and gorgeous magazine, and one of the rare venues for truly experimental work. I wish there were more “mad” magazines around. »

(Lynda Schor) 

As we remove ourselves, as a society, further from nature, we will only be left with human made tricks and however beautiful and cool they may appear, there isn’t that same sense of connection. urban sunset : Andy Harrod

As we remove ourselves, as a society, further from nature, we will only be left with human made tricks and however beautiful and cool they may appear, there isn’t that same sense of connection.

urban sunset : Andy Harrod

liquidnight: Hush Passing Through Mixed media on gallery box canvas, 2010

liquidnight:

Hush

Passing Through

Mixed media on gallery box canvas, 2010

Frau im Mond/By Rocket To The Moon

« It was clear to him that there was a woman on the moon, quite possibly waiting to be rescued since the Great Depression. Now that the macroeconomic cycle had come round again, as scientists all across the planet were busying themselves with explanations of why and how history seemed to repeat itself like a girl on a playground swinging back and forth and back and forth, few were thinking of space travel and he might be able to snatch a rocket from an abandoned shuttle site to visit that woman in her oracular wasteland, bring her back to Earth and find love once and for all. »

(Story by Marcus Speh published at 52|250-A Year Of Flash.)

reminded me of this edward hopper saying:  “If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” alllthings: motto

reminded me of this edward hopper saying: 

“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

alllthings:

motto

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> kill author issue eleven: Carver Their first issue for me was like a party where you actually like all of the people and then they even introduce you to new people that you like and want to get to know (and how often does THAT happen at parties?) (Ani Smith on PANK blog)

> kill author

issue eleven: Carver

Their first issue for me was like a party where you actually like all of the people and then they even introduce you to new people that you like and want to get to know (and how often does THAT happen at parties?)

(Ani Smith on PANK blog)

« One may say that in America there is no daily life at all. »

Gertrude Stein, Narration (1935)

this reminded me of the volkswagen commercial “the force” which we all watch here several times daily, we don’t even know why. laureola: The Lookouts and others (via 52hearts)

this reminded me of the volkswagen commercial “the force” which we all watch here several times daily, we don’t even know why.

laureola:

The Lookouts and others

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