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memmis: Hi, my name is Cartman and that’s my friend Memmis....

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:36:00 -0500

Hi, my name is Cartman and that’s my friend Memmis. We’re visiting her favorite public library

uncertaintimes: ontheborderland: If you were coming in the...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:42:57 -0500

ontheborderland:

If you were coming in the fall,
I’d brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,
I’d wind the months in balls,
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.

If only centuries delayed,
I’d count them on my hand,
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemens land.

If certain, when this life was out,
That yours and mine should be,
I’d toss it yonder like a rind,
And taste eternity.

But now, all ignorant of the length
Of time’s uncertain wing,
It goads me, like the goblin bee,
That will not state its sting.

—Emily Dickinson, born 10 December 1830

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llallalla: via Wyoming Libraries

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:42:00 -0500

llallalla:

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"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:30:00 -0500

“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” - Alphonse de...

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Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:22:00 -0500

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aquabooks: Nicholas Jones: Book Sculptor “Nicholas Jones is a...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:22:00 -0500

aquabooks:

Nicholas Jones: Book Sculptor

“Nicholas Jones is a Melbourne based sculptor who uses books and printed paper to make works which question the manner in which books are ‘read’.

Books are capsules; vessels designed to hold information, borne of investigation or of personal expression. These objects are often venerated, held aloft as are amulets, as the source of reasoned knowledge, the fecund field awaiting the harvest. Sequestered away in dusty libraries, spines anticipating the eye of the beholder, these books tactility remains at arms length.

The physical act of folding, tearing and sewing book leaves, may be considered iconoclastic (extinguishing the fire of reason, perhaps). Although sometimes iconised for their content or historical importance, more often than not, books are discarded as cultural detritus. These transformed books aim to highlight the poetic nature of the book as form. As historical phenomena, books have reflected the evolution of mankind, and although beseiged by new technologies, the book remains steadfastly both the solver of the riddle and the creator of the labyrinth.”

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bookspaperscissors: odayaka: (via nosecontacto)

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:07:44 -0500

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odayaka:

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kg13: theaccounts: UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UBU UTRECHT BY WIEL...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:43:00 -0500

kg13:

theaccounts:

UNIVERSITY LIBRARY UBU UTRECHT BY WIEL ARETS ARCHITECTS

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Glass and concrete panels clad the volumes of the building. The glass panels are printed with a repetitive image of a papyrus plant. Papyrus - a traditional material used in paper production - derives etymologically from the Greek byblos, which also serves as the root for words such as bibliography, bibliophile, and – in Dutch – Bibliotheek, or library. The papyrus image is replicated on each glass panel, allowing the façade to perform as a curtain which veils the library while also making subtle allusion to the nature of the program within. The pattern printed facade also mitigates sunlight entering the building, protecting the library’s printed materials. The pattern, which is also cast into the concrete panels of the exterior and interior walls, carries the allegorical motif into the various programs of the library.

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Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:10:00 -0500

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snakecharmer: there’s a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I’m too clever, I only let him...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:00:00 -0500

snakecharmer: there’s a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I’m too clever, I only let him...

"Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:00:00 -0500

“Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.” - Paul Auster (via...

"In one way or another, we’re all anchored to the book. A library is a metaphor for human beings or..."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:30:00 -0500

““In one way or another, we’re all anchored to the book. A library is a metaphor for human...

brownrice: Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009 - The New...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:22:00 -0500

brownrice:

Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009 - The New York Times

"To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your..."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:00:00 -0500

“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of...

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in..."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:00:00 -0500

““Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking...

"In Under the Dome, Stephen King’s 1,088-page saga of a small Maine town trapped suddenly inside an..."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:00:00 -0500

“In Under the Dome, Stephen King’s 1,088-page saga of a small Maine town trapped suddenly...

dostoyevsky: Literary magazine The Believer asked forensic...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:50:00 -0500

dostoyevsky:

Literary magazine The Believer asked forensic artist Barbara Anderson to sketch eight literary criminals, working from descriptive details offered by their creators.

Raskolnikov: “He was, by the way, exceptionally handsome, above the average in height, slim, well-built, with beautiful dark eyes and dark brown hair … his face was pale and distorted.”

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danethinks: Author of the week is Kevin Brooks from the...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:30:00 -0500

danethinks:

Author of the week is Kevin Brooks from the UK.

I’ve only read two of his books (Being and Candy), and I’m reading a third (Black Rabbit Summer) at the moment, but I think he’s a unique novelist, combining young adult themes with a crime and mystery twist. I’m not a big fan of either, but he makes it work.

"A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the..."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:30:00 -0500

“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in...

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Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:10:00 -0500

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