Cryptic Messages About Leaves

"Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. An..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:21:28 -0500

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Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. An individual’s life consisted of certain classified things: ‘real things’ which were unfrequent and priceless, simple ‘things’ which formed the routine stuff of life; and ‘ghost things,’ also called ‘fogs,’ such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death. Three or more things occurring at the same time formed a ‘tower,’ or if they came in immediate succession, they made a ‘bridge.’ ‘Real towers’ and ‘real bridges’ were the joys of life, and when the towers came in a series, one experienced supreme rapture; it almost never happened, though.

***

The classical beauty of clover honey, smooth, pale, translucent, freely flowing from the spoon and soaking my love’s bread and butter in liquid brass. The crumb steeped in nectar.
“Real thing?” he asked.
“Tower,” she answered.

”

- Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor (via petitchou) (via tragos)

and, because I can’t repeat it often enough, go here to see more of the mysteries of

Ada/Nabokov at work: Ada or Ardor:The Complete Annotated Ada ADAonline combines the text of Vladimir Nabokov’s longest and richest novel, in one frame, and in another, annotations and fore- and afternotes to each chapter by Brian Boyd, hyperlinked to each other and to a third frame incorporating supplementary materials, especially pictorial illustrations and a list of verbal and thematic Motifs in the novel.

(via travellinglight)

"Here it is almost summer. The trees of Paris are the green as we used to long for this past winter,..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:19:29 -0500

“Here it is almost summer. The trees of Paris are the green as we used to long for this past winter, and already we can feel the precocious burning of the August sun, the falls of autumn, the bare branches of December.”

- Excerpt from “Mélancolie du cinéma” by Robert Desnos (via aclockwithouthands)

fuckyeahsubtitles: Cría cuervos (1976) (via scarymansion)

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:55:55 -0400

fuckyeahsubtitles:

Cría cuervos (1976) (via scarymansion)

aclockwithouthands: SEPTEMBRE (QUEL JOLI TEMPS): BARBARA

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:54:09 -0400

aclockwithouthands:

SEPTEMBRE (QUEL JOLI TEMPS): BARBARA

"Sleep took your imprint and the color of your eyes."

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:11:11 -0400

“Sleep took your imprint
and the color of your eyes.”

- “XIV” by Paul Éluard (via aclockwithouthands)

Beat Happening - Indian Summer

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:12:53 -0400

Beat Happening - Indian Summer

"Cinema is by now a part of our memory. It is an attempt to rebuild our imperfect memories."

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:24:02 -0400

“Cinema is by now a part of our memory. It is an attempt to rebuild our imperfect memories.”

- Philippe Garrel

"Right now" is the new "Later".

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:07:56 -0400

(via ronen-v)

"That catastrophic situation which neither Victory not defeat can annul; to be Deaf yet determined..."

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:29:58 -0400

“That catastrophic situation which neither
Victory not defeat can annul; to be
Deaf yet determined to sing,
To be lame and blind yet burning for the Great Good Place,
To be radically corrupt yet mournfully attracted
By the Real Distinguished Thing.”

- W.H. Auden (via rcjohnso)

"We said we’d keep in touch. But touch is not something you can do from a distance.Touch is not..."

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:21:15 -0400

“We said we’d keep in touch. But touch is not something you can do from a distance.Touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it’s gone, it’s gone. We should have said we’d keep in words, because they are all we can string between us — words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.”

- From “Breaking and Entering” by David Levithan (via marthaq)

singmeamorning: Jenny Holzer, Projections, Dublin 2006

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:58:11 -0400

singmeamorning:

Jenny Holzer, Projections, Dublin 2006

John Cale - All of My Friends (LCD Soundsystem cover)

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:03:20 -0400

John Cale - All of My Friends (LCD Soundsystem cover)

"Learn not to play your instrument."

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:01:21 -0400

“Learn not to play your instrument.”

- Calvin, Tobi, Kurt

(via Jane Dark: 1, 2)

animaexmachina: catferreira: definatalie: by Roland...

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:35:59 -0400

animaexmachina:

catferreira:

definatalie:

by Roland Tiangco

[via Fubiz]

madlangbayan: The Course of Empire: Destruction (1836) by Thomas...

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:21:05 -0400

madlangbayan:

The Course of Empire: Destruction (1836) by Thomas Cole

"Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images. We believe we..."

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:03:58 -0400

“Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images. We believe we can overpower the world with technology. But through technology, the world has imposed itself on us and the surprise effect generated by that reversal has been considerable. You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it’s the scene that wants to be photographed. You’re merely an extra in the production.”

- Jean Baudrillard (via syntheticpubes)

"We learn to live without passion. To be reasonable. We go hungry amid the giant granaries this world..."

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:22:11 -0400

“We learn to live without passion.
To be reasonable. We go hungry
amid the giant granaries
this world is. We store up plenty
for when we are old and mild.
It is our strength that deprives us.
Like Keats listening to the doctor
who said the best thing for
tuberculosis was to eat only one
slice of bread and a fragment
of fish each day. Keats starved
himself to death because he yearned
so desperately to feast on Fanny Brawne.
Emerson and his wife decided to make
love sparingly in order to accumulate
his passion. We are taught to be
moderate. To live intelligently.”

- “The Danger of Wisdom” by Jack Gilbert (via aclockwithouthands)

"Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are. In this..."

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:52:18 -0400

“Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are. In this country, people die at 21. They die emotionally at 21, maybe younger. My responsibility as an artist is to help people get past 21.”

- john cassavetes (via mb) (via flamelikeme)

Take away the important parts

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:03:19 -0400

Take away the important parts

"My only wish is that this work will exist and endure beyond my character as a human being."

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:34:37 -0400

“My only wish is that this work will exist and endure beyond my character as a human being.”

- Haruki Murakami