December 2011
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30 Days of Conan
somnbody:
I read an issue of Conan.
I draw Conan from a previous illustration.
And then I draw one from memory.
Then I do it again 29 more times.
“As long as nothing can be known for sure
(no signals have been picked up...”
– The Ball by Wisława Szymborska (translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Claire Cavanagh)
“By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via funeral)
30 Days of Conan
somnbody:
I read an issue of Conan.
I draw Conan from a previous illustration.
And then I draw one from memory.
Then I do it again 29 more times.
Watchau contraire, yeats
THE SECOND COMING
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
on faculty scholarship:
“The problem isn’t so much what we do—Bauerlein, unlike the Times reporter, doesn’t think it’s poor scholarship—it’s the amount we do. Why did we ever buy into the notion that knowledge should be measured quantitatively? Whatever persuaded us that wisdom can be accumulated as artifacts, and the more pieces of it to pile up, the better?
Admittedly, most faculty...
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– excerpt from Dich wundert nicht des Sturmes Wucht
Summer was like your house: you know where each thing stood. Now you must go out into your heart as onto a vast plain. Now the immense loneliness begins.
The days go numb, the wind sucks the world from your senses like withered leaves.
Through the...
“Poetry effects change by fiddling with the archetypes and getting at people’s...”
– Gary Snyder, The Real Work: Interviews & Talks (via bookoasis)