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“It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.”

Houellebecq

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The late philosopher Richard Rorty wrote this in 1998: "Members of labour unions and unorganised unskilled workers will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from shrinking or prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time they will realize that suburban white collar workers - themselves desperately afraid of being downsized - are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else. At that point, something will crack. The non-suburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and will start looking around for a strongman to vote for - someone willing to assure them that once he is elected the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots. One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past forty years by black and brown Americans and by homosexuals will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion ... All the resentment that badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet."

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When people got tired of that candidate, and the centre-left in general, we’d witness the phenomenon of democratic change, and the voters would install a candidate of the centre-right, also for one or two terms, depending on his personal appeal. Western nations took a strange pride in this system, though it amounted to little more than a power-sharing deal between two rival gangs, and they would even go to war to impose it on nations that failed to share their enthusiasm.

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The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our compassion between two infinities of happiness and peace.

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If you look at our foundational documents we have this open-endedness, "the pursuit of happiness," but it's not defined. So, there's a sense that we can say there's this thing out here but we can't capture it, there's something beyond us, there's something we can't talk about. We can refer to this other area, and that attitude is a much healthier way than the Marxist idea or the Hegelian idea of trying to come up with a full system that explains all aspects of life and contains everything, which can never be big enough. Of course, it's dismal to live within ideas. Ideas are never big enough to hold life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8FYj1wKyaY

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Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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its all about making the ridiculous look mundane and vice versa!

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The reader’s only got a finite amount of attention.  If the technique is calling to itself, thats less attention to pay to the characters, their plight, the way the character are like you, the resonances you have for them. So its little bit of a math problem. The perfect thing would be both technically brilliant and would also just be so sad it’d make you jump of a bridge. -- David Foster Wallace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfjjSj9coA0

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http://imgur.com/gallery/TwWOU0h

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The cover of the first issue of the next series, out early next year. (edit: bigger picture)

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http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/john-singer-sargent

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"This is the most comprehensive and artistically successful of four maps of Great Britain drawn by the 13th-century historian Matthew Paris, who was a monk at St Alban’s Abbey. Many geographical features are recognisable. His are the earliest surviving maps with such a high level of detail. They stand out in the history of medieval mapmaking as the first attempts to portray the actual physical appearance of the country rather than represent the relationship between places in simple schematic diagrams."

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I like knowing where I am in action sequences. A lot of the attention went into how could we keep the energy up and orient people. The secret is writing to a location. The secret is saying: “Here is where we are,” whether it’s a street, whether it’s a set, or whether it’s Monument Valley or wherever it is, and step by step, rigorously writing a script, writing into every moment and not faking anything and not cutting any corners. It’s just attention to detail. It’s stitch after stitch after stitch. There’s no shortcut. It’s the same thing as trying to write behavior.

--Tony Gilroy

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Lithopinion magazine Illustrated by Austin Briggs

1960s.

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