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| I read three quarters of this collection before the digital check-out expired! Something about Alice Munro's writing sucks me in deep, even when I can't follow exactly who is who and what details are enfolding into stories-within-stories. The first s...more | |
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| Reading this felt like an insane person was telling me their life story, complete with awkward sexy parts. Real disappointed with this. Moebius' art kept getting more and more smushed in. Recommended only for die hard Jodorowky and Moebius fans. | |
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David Gallin-Parisi
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The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate Wondrous Mysteries of Science
by Matt LaMothe
read in April, 2013
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| Yes this is a beautiful book of questions and artists' works wondering what the questions might look like. Or the answers! Or both. Science questions are answered by world experts in mostly easy to read, page-long responses. The information contained...more | |
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| Sweet idea, not the best answers. Features more celebrity writers with talk show like answers. I was turned off by the tone of some of the writers, seeming like they were talking down to a kid instead of illuminating wonders of the world. A better ve...more | |
“First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.”
― Jesse Ball, The Way Through Doors
― Jesse Ball, The Way Through Doors
“Then the wooden benches along the walls, where so many outcasts had slept, would be lit by a sort of slow, clocked lightning til the bulb steadied and fastened its tiny feral fury upon the center of the room like a single sullen and manic eye. To burn on there with a steady hate. Til morning wearied and dimmed it away to nothing more than some sort of little old lost gray child of a district-station moon, all its hatred spent.”
― Nelson Algren, The Man With the Golden Arm
― Nelson Algren, The Man With the Golden Arm
“In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance... Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
― Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
“This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed to her all the more desperately important now that she was almost certain, in her innermost heart, that her trip was a failure. Her attitude was not an astonishing one, since like many others she conceived of her life as separate from herself; the road was laid out always a little ahead of her by scared hands, and she walked down it without a question. This road, which was her life, would go on existing after her death, even as her death existed while she still lived.”
― Jane Bowles, My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
― Jane Bowles, My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
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