Or, I am a robot, and so can you

Godless heathen. These are things that fascinate me and things that occupy my thoughts ... Books, photography, language, rocks, art, science, things vintage and much more. I hope you enjoy!

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Right and center Deans have inclined together in soft conference, forming a kind of tepee of skin and hair.

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

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The Director of Composition seems to have more than the normal number of eyebrows.

Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

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The original Beautiful Mind, right here – a page from Sir Isaac Newton’s notebooks, courtesy of the Cambridge University Library.

Though Newton considered “making pies on Sunday” one of his 48 self-professed sins, he clearly had no reservations about making pi’s. 

Peek inside more famous creators’ notebooks here, and also see Van Gogh’s never-before-revealed sketchbooks.

(via @erik_kwakkel)

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"What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane." - said of Horselover Fat, Valis

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from Koko's Earth Control (1928)

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Trippy clay guys worshipping in an old Rolex video on the Story of Time.

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Owl Jolson

I Love to Singa (1936)

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I Love to Singa (1936)

"We just received another telegram. Station G-O-N-G. Stop. Your program is coming in great. Stop. Think it's fine. Stop. Like to hear your amateurs. STOP..."

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Christmas Card by M.C. Escher, 1955 

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Shirley Temple

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Keep calm…

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The Hitchhiker

-Pamela Hudson

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funnywildlife:

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Charlotte Greenwood. Metro-Goldwin-Mayer studio, 1928..

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"During World War II, three organizations—the Writers’ War Board, the Council on Books in Wartime, and the Office of War Information—came together to rally the American citizenry around the war effort. Inspired by Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms,” these agencies emphasized the First Freedom, of speech, by contrasting it with the Nazi book burnings, censorship, and other Axis acts of suppression. The importance of books was given wartime currency in the slogan “Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas.” The German students had given to American war propagandists the perfect image—burning books—to symbolize the antithesis of America’s free marketplace of ideas."

- http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/bookburning/war.php