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Only the best magic. This is what I consume. (I want to make a collection of short texts, which represent my search for history and culture. Naturally I want my blog to be pretty, but I come into contact with pretty pictures slowly.

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Upside down (reserved) map of the world Counterclockwise clock Harvard Classics Pocket watch Suits Porcelain tea set

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To James Madison from Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1785

So you think Thomas Jefferson never sounded like a social liberal, and it's okay for people to use his quotes to support a limited government that forsakes the poor?

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"The hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, chronicling the laying of the longest wire on Earth."

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Like thousands, I took just pride and more than just, struck matches that brought my blood to a boil; I memorized the tricks to set the river on fire- somehow never wrote something to go back to. Can I suppose I am finished with wax flowers and have earned my grass on the minor slopes of Parnassus…. No honeycomb is built without a bee adding circle to circle, cell to cell, the wax and honey of a mausoleum- this round dome proves its maker is alive, the corpse of the insect lives embalmed in honey, prays that its perishable work live long enough for the sweet-tooth bear to desecrate- this open book…my open coffin.

Reading Myself, Robert Lowell

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Andreas Gursky, Hong Kong Island, 1994. (It was hard to find a version that wasn't flipped. 

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Andreas Gursky, Paris, Montparnasse, 1993. 

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“Not realism, but filth; not crudity, but pornography”

Le Figaro about Zola's L'Assommoir.

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Or on why painting and sculpture are boring. 

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On the Forum this week, we explore connections: Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Thomas Friedman argues that the best way for the USA to overcome its present economic difficulties is to re-define its ties with the rest of the world and re-think its educational policy. British economist Paul Ormerod believes that we need to combine standard economic analysis with the psychology of crowds if we want to understand how people in 21st century make decisions. And Korean-American neuroscientist Sebastian Seung has begun a pioneering project to map every single neural connection in our brains, all the many billions of them.

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Spies are like ghosts—people seem to have had a general feeling that there might be such things, but they did not at the same time believe in them—because they never saw them, and seldom met anyone who had had first-hand experience of them.

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The "content" of any medium is always another medium. The content of writing is speech, just as the written word is the content of print, and print is the content of the telegraph.

Marshal McLuhan, Understanding Media.

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Look motherfucker. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Pedal Up.