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tattoolit: Here’s mine, it’s a work in progress, Lovecraft and Stirner (next one will be probably Pushkin).  

tattoolit:

Here’s mine, it’s a work in progress, Lovecraft and Stirner (next one will be probably Pushkin).

 

Reblog / posted 1 week ago via bookriot · © tattoolit with 76 notes

dduane: amandaonwriting: Editor’s Mug: Remember to close all parentheses. We’re not paying to air condition the entire paragraph. (grin)

dduane:

amandaonwriting:

Editor’s Mug:

Remember to close all parentheses. We’re not paying to air condition the entire paragraph.

(grin)


jothelibrarian: Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a girdle book. This book, a philosophical tract by Boetheius (the consolation of philosophy), was bound in such a way that it was possible to tie it to the owner’s girdle (belt) and refer to it throughout the day. Although the book and the binding date from the fifteenth century, the catalogue record suggests this is not the original binding. The book is thought to have originated in England, but the binding is Dutch or German, and the book is now in America at Yale University’s Beinecke Library. What travels it has had! Image source: Beinecke MS 84. Creative Commons licensed via Flickr.

jothelibrarian:

Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is a girdle book. This book, a philosophical tract by Boetheius (the consolation of philosophy), was bound in such a way that it was possible to tie it to the owner’s girdle (belt) and refer to it throughout the day. Although the book and the binding date from the fifteenth century, the catalogue record suggests this is not the original binding. The book is thought to have originated in England, but the binding is Dutch or German, and the book is now in America at Yale University’s Beinecke Library. What travels it has had!

Image source: Beinecke MS 84. Creative Commons licensed via Flickr.


"DiCaprio and Mulligan, meanwhile, don’t seem like star-crossed lovers so much as a delusional man in love with a bauble of a woman. Maybe that’s intentional?"
—

People Magazine’s review on ‘The Great Gatsby’

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READ A BOOK

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Say what you will about the movie, this is hilarious.

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vintageanchorbooks: Friedrich Nietzsche’s typewriter. (from The Goethe and Schiller Archive, Weimar, Germany)

vintageanchorbooks:

Friedrich Nietzsche’s typewriter. (from The Goethe and Schiller Archive, Weimar, Germany)


nypl: Need we say more? Nah, we think this 1899 sheet music from our Library for the Performing Arts pretty much covers it. Don’t forget your mother, and Happy Mother’s Day to all! 

nypl:

Need we say more? Nah, we think this 1899 sheet music from our Library for the Performing Arts pretty much covers it. Don’t forget your mother, and Happy Mother’s Day to all! 

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betterbooktitles: Joseph Heller: Catch-22 Reader Submission by David Leeds

betterbooktitles:

Joseph Heller: Catch-22

Reader Submission by David Leeds


"Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it - that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun."
— Stephen Fry (via existenti-al)