May 2012
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“Quelli che hanno un’indole romantica decidono di lavorare nell’editoria, nel...”
– Innamorato Fisso del 17 maggio 2012 - [ Il Foglio.it › Innamorato Fisso ]
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The Surreal Selling of Man Ray →
How a Long Island family with an auto-body shop wound up controlling the artist’s legacy. The $20 million collection in the garage.
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“I’m 101 at the moment, I get older by...
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Roland Barthes - Toys →
Toys are essentially a microcosm of the adult world; they are all reduced copies of human objects, as if in the eyes of the public the child was nothing but a smaller man who must be supplied with objects of his own size.
[via tetw]
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“In the spirit of full disclosure, it should be noted that Jay McInerney is...”
– WSJ
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“Dispiace tra una latrina e l’altra mettere dei lastroni di ferro. Però per i...”
– Innamorato Fisso dell’8 maggio 2012
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“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if...”
– Walter Scott [via Legal Writing Prof Blog]
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On the origins of the arts - E.O. Wilson - Harvard... →
We are forced to stumble through our chemically challenged lives in a chemosensory biosphere, relying on sound and vision that evolved primarily for life in the trees. Only through science and technology has humanity penetrated the immense sensory worlds in the rest of the biosphere. With instrumentation, we are able to translate the sensory worlds of the rest of life into our own. And in the...
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“Ero in un residence. Mi telefona in stanza il direttore: “Scusi, un sondaggio:...”
– Innamorato Fisso del 4 maggio 2012
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“In the [past] five years, federal courts of appeals have cited Wikipedia about...”
– WSJ Law Blog
April 2012
10 posts
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“I don’t want this Parks Department to build any parks because I...”
– Ron Swanson (S01E01)
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Brian Kane: Crafting Chairs for How We Sit Now -... →
As our habits evolve for sitting and sprawling in public, design needs have changed, too. That’s been good for Mr. Kane, 64, who runs a three-person design firm in San Francisco.
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The Art of the Heist: Valuing Art through Its... →
Museum thefts are the rare exceptions in art crime but nevertheless continue to fascinate anyone with even a passing interest in art
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Antonello Branca - What's Happening? (1967) →
Antonello Branca’s “What’s Happening?”: an irreverent portrait of America of the 60s seen through the experiences of artists of the Beat Generation and Pop Art. The America of the Vietnam war, ploughed by contradictions and explosive social tensions but potentially saturated with expectations for the future. With: Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert...
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“Entrate in un negozio, acquistate mille lire di merce. Poi uscite senza pagare....”
– Cesare Zavattini, Al macero [via Paolo Nori]
March 2012
37 posts
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“Money really is a sort of a gentlemen’s agreement to agree on where the...”
– George Dyson - @Edge
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“I am glad you are happy — but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe...”
– Francis Scott Fitzgerald to his 11-year-old daughter, “Scottie” [via Letters of Note]
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“The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician,...”
– Anthony Burgess, Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 48
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1733, Japan: Seven Reasons for Divorce - Lapham's... →
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“We are allowed to order—from the state library—only nonfiction and law books. Of...”
– Eldridge Cleaver, “No Sex in the Prison Library” - Lapham’s Quarterly
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“Ma vi domando: che cosa garantisce una democrazia che una dittatura non possa...”
– Carmelo Bene [via pooryorickproductions]
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“I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude, glutinous,...”
– Robert Pirosh attempt at a screenwriting job [via Letters of Note]
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Palettes of Famous Painters - @Retronaut →
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“Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making...”
– Henry Louis Mencken
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638 Ways to Kill Castro - Wikipedia →
638 Ways to Kill Castro is a Channel 4 documentary film, broadcast in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2006, which tells the story of some of the numerous attempts of the Central Intelligence Agency to kill Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro.
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“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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