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Me gustaría tener esta convicción de Sócrates; r lo menos, pertenecer a la nación Cervantes
Would you agree with Socrates? Are you a citizen of the world?
Happy birthday to Fernand Léger, the preeminent painter of the modern city. He developed his brightly colored, machine-inspired style as a response to the sensory assault of the modern metropolis.
“The City,” 1919, by Fernand Léger © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
»eunoia« by christian bök (+)
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the word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in english that contains all five vowels. directly inspired by the oulipo (l’ouvroir de littérature potentielle), a french writers’ group interested in experimenting with different forms of literary constraint, eunoia is a five-chapter book in which each chapter is a univocal lipogram – the first chapter has a as its only vowel, the second chapter e, etc. each vowel takes on a distinct personality: the i is egotistical and romantic, the o jocular and obscene, the e elegiac and epic.
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Quentin Jones’ Paint Test No. 1
It’s important to walk There are friends yet to meet My dog says “Forget about it!” My dog says “Let’s run in the woods”
What characterizes an epoch need not therefore necessarily be 'new' in the sense of appearing for the first time. Epochal signification may very well be connected with famous figures who are only now being moved into the centre of the historical stage.
N. Luhmann Love as Passion. The Codification of Intimacy
Incommunicability, it would seem, was invented [in the eighteenth century] in order to take the banality out of mediocrity. It was incommunicability that enabled normal people in the literature at hand to come up with a story which others could find interesting.
Luhman Love as Passion
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