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Author Archives: Lex Gill
FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE
Dandelions, a wish processing facility at the Laguna Bell Substation by the Art Department (via Hyperallergic).
FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY FOUR
From Jialung Deng‘s A Silent Room.
FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY THREE
Anuj Shrestha, Syrian Refugee Project comics (more here).
FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY TWO
Victor Tkachenko, via Jocelyn K. Glei.
FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY ONE
Matt Jones in the Southern Review, via Longreads. While the U.S.S.R. eventually won the space race in 1961 by sending Yuri Gagarin into orbit, the Americans stole the show again on July 16, 1969, when NASA launched a Saturn V rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. Four days and nearly 240,000Continue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY ONE”
FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY
The Lie Generator, by Alex Petrowsky (for Wired).
FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY NINE
Joan Didion on self-respect in Vogue (also in Slouching Towards Bethlehem). “Although to be driven back upon oneself is an uneasy affair at best, rather like trying to cross a border with borrowed credentials, it seems to me now the one condition necessary to the beginnings of real self-respect. Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deceptionContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY NINE”
FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT
James Baldwin in the Paris Review. You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal. … Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN
From KangHee Kim‘s Street Errands.
FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX
Nick Cave on grief, via Austin Kleon. I feel the presence of my son, all around, but he may not be there. I hear him talk to me, parent me, guide me, though he may not be there. He visits Susie in her sleep regularly, speaks to her, comforts her, but he may not beContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX”
FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE
From David Schermann.
FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR
From RM Vaughan’s interview with Paul Vermeersch about Self Defence for the Brave and Happy. RM Vaughan: The book moves effortlessly between prophetic pronouncements and intimate, personal observations. Is it a goal of the book to conflate the two in order to make the reader more keenly aware that we live in prophetic times? PaulContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR”
FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THREE
Robert Hass, via Pome. We asked the captain what course of action he proposed to take toward a beast so large, terrifying, and unpredictable. He hesitated to answer, and then said judiciously: “I think I shall praise it.”
FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO
From David Whyte (audio here). “We tend to think of vulnerability as a kind of weakness, something to be walked around. But it’s interesting to look at the origin of the word, from the Latin word “vulneras,” meaning “wound.” It’s really the place where you’re open to the world, whether you want to be orContinue reading “FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO”
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