Bill Sullivan, More Turns (2008)
hyperallergic:
Soviet Cosmonaut Propaganda Posters
“From 1958 to 1963 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics created an incredible collection of posters with over-the-top propaganda lines like that to inspire Russians in the space race.”
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stickyembraces:
Philosophy Valentine’s cards, #1
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deadpaint:
Man Ray, Kiki de Montparnasse
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seethroughleper:
Llyn Foulkes - Crucifixion - 1985
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fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:
unaguerrasinfondo:
Fidel Castro playing basketball in Poland in 1972. Source here.
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“Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar’s idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men’s transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,—when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining, —we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their ray, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, “A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.”
— EMERSON—“THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR”
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer’s hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume. The discerning will read, in his Plato or Shakespeare, only that least part,—only the authentic utterances of the oracle;— all the rest he rejects, were it never so many times Plato’s and Shakespeare’s.”
— EMERSON—“THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR”
