December 2011
71 posts
“Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home...”
– Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard (via acs1229)
“Sight says too many things at one time.”
– Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (via invisiblestories)
“As the island of knowledge grows, the surface that makes contact with mystery...”
– W. Mark Richardson, ‘A Skeptic’s Sense of Wonder’
“The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned...”
– Italo Calvino, from ‘Mr. Palomar’
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“Stories about place are makeshift things. They are composed with the...”
– Michel de Certeau
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“If, when a man has fallen into habits of idleness, of day-dreaming and of sloth,...”
– Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals (via theinfinitegeneration)
“Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was...”
– Gustave Flaubert (courtesy of Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern)
“The hypothesis of absolute void contains nothing at all which terrifies me. I am...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via whyexistence)
“….human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to...”
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via bookoasis)
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“They were soft, they had never faced any fire. They were beautiful nothings”
– Ham on Rye, Bukowski. (via myworldispyramid)
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“The past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It...”
– Virginia Woolf (via sdmoniz)
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OBSERVE
COLLECT
ANALYSE
NOTICE PATTERNS
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“It was the darkness that got to you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt you could not breathe. You wanted to beat at the darkness and shriek to be let out. And after a while you got used to it. Of course. And then you stopped believing that there was anything else anywhere.”
—Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Modern moment or Romantic ecstasy?
“Have you sunk into so deep a stupor that you are happy only in your unhappiness? If that is the case, let us fly to countries that are the counterfeits of Death. I know just the place for us, poor soul. We will pack up our trunks for Torneo. We will go still farther, to the farthest end of the Baltic Sea; still farther from life if possible; we will settle at the Pole. There the sun only...
“I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual...”
– Amiel, The Journal Intimé of Henri-Frédéric Amiel (via eideticfields)
“The interior is the asylum of art. The collector is the true resident of the...”
– Walter Benjamin, from Expose of 1935 (via veemignon)
“What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions...”
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Octavio Paz
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“In this pilgrimage in search of modernity I lost my way at many points only to...”
– Octavio Paz (via atomos)
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Fractal Ontology
http://fractalontology.wordpress.com/category/bachelard/
Psychologists — and more especially philosophers — pay little attention to the play of miniature frequently introduced into fairy tales. In the eyes of the psychologist, the writer is merely amusing himself when he creates houses that can be set on a pea. But this is a basic absurdity that places the tale on a level with the merest fantasy....
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“Write in order not simply to destroy, in order not simply to conserve, in order...”
– Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster
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“I shall see a light in the depths of the sea, and stealthily approach - for...”
– Virginia Woolf in a letter to Ethel Smyth, September 1930
Shakespeare, The Tempest I.ii.
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““We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories...”
– Milan Kundera