Carlo Cafferini, The almost full moon slowly rising between the cathedral and the leaning tower in Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa, Italy.
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“Vladimir Nabokov’s note card, c. 1969.
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“[March 21 1951]
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Vladimir Nabokov’s note card, c. 1969.
“[March 21 1951]
Student explaining to me (after getting 55) that when reading a novel (’Ulysses’ in this case) he likes to skip ‘passages and pages’ so as ‘to get his own idea, you know, about the book and not be influenced by the author’.”
what a beautiful exploration in Damascus (Dimashq). someone commented that Kareem Rahma is the Anthony Bourdain of our generation and i couldn't agree more. this series is a reminder that we all carry history within us.
and i view expressions of humanity(soulfulness, sentience) as part of the collective history that lives within me. what an honor it is, not only to witness remains of the hands & hearts that built the foundations of our life now, but to be able to have humility and reverence in the face of it.
No one is more like an ex-communist than an ex-priest. To sin against History or against God - what is the difference? The literature had methodically classified the various possibilities. Koestler or the renegade. Orwell or the apostate. Bukharin or the self-immolator.
Murder in the Central Committee by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1969
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)
