December 2011
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“Sedurre significa incarnare, agli occhi di un altro, la sua attesa. E questo,...”
– Giuseppe Pontiggia
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“I think that the kind of pleasure I would consider as the real pleasure would be...”
– Michel Foucault, from a 1983 interview collected in Politics, Philosophy, Culture [via suzywire]
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Music For Silenced Voices - Shostakovich and His... →
There is no way to listen to the string quartets of Shostakovich and not wonder about their external meanings. In the Western art music tradition, the string quartet genre has been celebrated for its rigor and coherence. But this Soviet composer, whose reputation has been wrestled over almost since his death in 1975, gave us string quartets without stability. The music is marked by extravagant...
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“Certe donne hanno l’anima di un Saladino. Le Neronesse son molto peggiori...”
– Antonio Beltramelli, L’ombra del mandorlo
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Navigating Love and Autism - NYTimes.com →
The first night they slept entwined on his futon, Jack Robison, 19, who had since childhood thought of himself as “not like the other humans,” regarded Kirsten Lindsmith with undisguised tenderness. She was the only girl to have ever asked questions about his obsessive interests — chemistry, libertarian politics, the small drone aircraft he was building in his kitchen — as though she actually...
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The Book of Books - What Literature Owes the Bible... →
The Bible is the model for and subject of more art and thought than those of us who live within its influence, consciously or unconsciously, will ever know.
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“I believe there is a natural inborn greatness in Groucho that defies close...”
– Woody Allen
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Ending the Infographic Plague - Megan McArdle -... →
The reservoir of this disease of erroneous infographics is internet marketers who don’t care whether the information in their graphics is right… just so long as you link it. As a Christmas present to, well, everyone, I’m issuing a plea to bloggers to help stop this plague in its track.
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“Manualetto d’amore, sarebbe il titolo di un dizionarietto in cui vorrei...”
– Carlo Dossi, Note azzurre (#3596)
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“[…] quando Alma uscì definitivamente dalla vita dell’artista, il...”
– Alma Mahler Schindler - Wikipedia
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“The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a...”
– Ayn Rand, The Objectivist Calendar, Dec. 1976
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“[Lorin Maazel] è stato un bambino prodigio: ha iniziato a studiare il violino a...”
– Lorin Maazel - Wikipedia
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“Et ainsi, ne pouvant faire que ce qui est juste fût fort, on a fait que ce qui...”
– Blaise Pascal [via 5crooge]
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The Oral History of Menswear Blogging and Street... →
In less than 10 years, men’s style on the web has gone from fashion also-ran to clickable powerhouse. How did it come so far so fast? Some pioneering street style, a few obsessed enthusiasts, and more than a few pairs of double-monks.
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“Io sospetto che voi siate, psicologicamente parlando, sani, e questo mi è...”
– Giorgio Manganelli, Antologia privata [via Paolo Nori]
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Picturing Justice, the On-Line Journal of Law and... →
From 1997 to 2006 Picturing Justice published over 300 short articles on the intersection between law and lawyers on one side and popular culture on the other.
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“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...”
– Winston Churchill
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