January 2010
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“On 1 January my husband informed me that he will be spending each Wednesday with...”
– Personal ad from the London Review of Books. [Source, via Bookslut]
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“Yes … I like … I like their … their illogicality … their...”
– Samuel Beckett, when asked if he rereads the mystics – St John of the Cross, Meister Eckhart etc [Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde by Charles Juliet, reviewed by Nicholas Lezard]
WatchOnedreamrush / Zhestkov.com on Vimeo
“It´s like putting your finger into an electric socket and being wired up to the...”
– One of Lucian Freud´s women sitters, on posing for him
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
– Voltaire
NAICA - The Crystals Cave from Martin L Vargas on Vimeo.
More here (BBC News).
WatchWilliam Trubridge breaks the freediving world record without fins with a dive to 88m (288 feet) in 3:30 in Dean’s Blue Hole, Bahamas. (via Vimeo)
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we’re alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly selfaware, the submicroscopic moments. He said this more than once, Elster did, in more than one way. His life happened, he said, when he sat staring at a blank wall, thinking about dinner.
An eight-hundred-page biography...
