More generous offerings of excerpts from good books I own; I’ve been moving things on to the new set of shelves I’ve just finished building and unearthing a few delights. Tonight it’s the turn of How to Write, Think and Speak Correctly edited by C.E.M Joad and published quite-a-long-time-ago (there’s no date in it) by …
Notes from The Paul Jennings Reader – Collected Pieces 1943-89 There are moments in even the busiest urban life when our relationship with the city is suddenly changed. A meeting ends early, we have time off to see a doctor or solicitor – whatever it is, for a couple of hours we stroll, we are …
Eek. More coincidental links this morning – I just found a review of a new book about the history of camouflage and its impact on fashion, DPM: Disruptive Pattern Material. DPM includes a comprehensive guide to the camouflage patterns issued to soldiers of 107 nations around the world and, for the first time in print, …
To see the full image when you visit the flickr page, click on the ‘all sizes’ button and choose the original image size. The text should be readable then. On closer inspection I’ve just noticed that one of the characters looks a bit like Mickey, the star of the Sendak book. It’s a little difficult …
I’ve been looking through a catalogue of designer chairs and between the pages of photos and construction drawings I found this (click on the images for full size): It’s a delightfully drawn cartoon depicting three characters clambering over a world rotated through ninety degrees. I haven’t a clue what the dialogue says, if anybody could …
For no better reason than wanting to keep up with the neighbours, I’m writing this evening from the kitchen worktop whilst waiting for some dough to rise, risking the ingress of flour with every key tap. It’s not quite the same as Stuart’s recent entry from the bath, but the acknowledgement of my actions lends …
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Notes on TimeAndTheHunter/IIIDeath (page 87) Despair not. Just when you were beginning to feel thoroughly dejected about Calvino’s proposal that there is no longer any real connection between anybody or anything now that we’ve become complex multi-cellular organisms, rather than simple cells adrift in the promordial soup 1; he extends the olive branch of hope …
Notes on TimeAndTheHunter/BloodSea (page 39) The narrator casts his mind back, far from the car journey he is currently taking part in, to the primordial beginnings of his cellular existence, swimming, or being swum, through the medium that contains all life, whose movements effect the movements of all the interconnected points in the system, only …
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A pen is so much easier to carry than a PDA or a laptop. Whilst that remains true, you’ll have to suffer the occasional hand written entry. I’ve just started reading Time and the Hunter by Calvino. Peter has also bought himself a copy and he and I have agreed to do some inter-blog notes …
just found the source of this Vonnegut article – via biroco, via cloud23 back to In These Times.