March 2012
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Blue: A List
Azure Aquamarine Baby blue Bleu de France Bondi blue Brandeis blue Cambridge Blue Carolina blue Celeste Cerulean Cobalt blue Columbia blue Cornflower blue Cyan Deep sky blue Dodger blue Duke blue Egyptian blue Electric blue Eton blue Federal blue Glaucous Electric indigo International Klein Blue Iris Lapis lazuli Majorelle Blue Maya blue Midnight blue Navy blue Non-photo blue Palatinate blue...
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“For those eyes a thing didn’t need to be present; they contained it inside...”
– Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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“8. Pockets daily emptier of their last resources are enough to break the...”
– Samuel Beckett, Mercier and Camier
(execrablefrippery)
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Give me something
A word.
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“On the purple ground, long serpentine metallic yellow leaves looked to me like...”
– Paul Gaugin, Noa Noa, from Potential images: ambiguity and indeterminacy in modern art by Dario Gamboni
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And I, stuck at the impossible crossroads of putting myself in parenthesis or not.
-Patrick Chamoiseau, Solibo Magnificent
(aphidempire)
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“The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be...”
– R.W. Emerson, Circles
(thank you, invisiblestories)
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Odilon Redon on Images in Images
The meaning of mystery is to be always in ambiguity, with double, triple aspects; in the hints of aspect (images in images), forms which will be, or which become according to the state of mind of the beholder. All things become more than suggestive because they appear. …All my originality consists in bringing fantastic beings to life by making them plausible, and, as much as possible, in...
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Volcanic Eruptions by Death Toll: A List
“Volcanic eruptions can be highly explosive, volatile, or neither.”
[A chart.]
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“When I read, I don’t really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth...”
– Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude
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Tonight I think no poetry will serve -Adrienne Rich
(armenotti)
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“I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!”
– Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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“Behind the incessant parade of bright images, a gaping blackness.”
– (magnificentruin)
[a study of light]
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Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite? -Jorge Luis Borges
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The sky is pale blue, darkening to an indigo that contains black, but isn’t black at the edge of sight. At the same time the sun is shining brightly. (The world is everything at once.)
-Bhanu Kapil, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers
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“I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend...”
– Mavis Gallant, The Selected Stories Of Mavis Gallant
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“Y ustedes y yo y todos sabemos que el tiempo es más pesado que la más pesada...”
– Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
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“I have no roof over me, and it is raining into my eyes.”
– Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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