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Acceptance World

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Vélo/Giraffe: nextian: Later we lived privately at home for ten years, gathering...

nextian:

Later we lived privately at home for ten years, gathering what we could here and there to have enough food and clothing…. When he got hold of a piece of a piece of calligraphy, a painting, a goblet, or a tripod, we would go over it at our leisure, pointing out faults and flaws,…

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Montaigne's Library: Hail to the King, Baby

“So now do you see why I don’t begin my course of lectures in chronological order, with King Arthur and Chaucer, but with the Elizabethans, in defiance of all the rules? And do you see that what I most want is for you to be familiar with them, get a sense of that liveliest of periods? One can’t…

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tvalexander: (Source) Um
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tvalexander:

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mudwerks: Avon 752 (by uk vintage) 1956; Death by Moonlight by Michael Innes. Cover art by Arthur Sussman Again, perhaps not quite capturing Innes’ special flavour.
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mudwerks:

Avon 752 (by uk vintage)

1956; Death by Moonlight by Michael Innes. Cover art by Arthur Sussman

Again, perhaps not quite capturing Innes’ special flavour.

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myimaginarybrooklyn: Michael Innes, Appleby Talks Again. This cover doesn’t really convey Appleby’s bookishness. Surely just an oversight!
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myimaginarybrooklyn:

Michael Innes, Appleby Talks Again.

This cover doesn’t really convey Appleby’s bookishness. Surely just an oversight!

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In any case, the books were a great success in both Britain and America upon their publication, but heaps of praise from people like Evelyn Waugh do not always secure a devoted, continuing readership once a book is no longer new. And these books deserve a continuing readership. They are masterful, they are deeply artful — and they are also rather fun. They contain a wealth of comedy, closely observed as the best serious work but with an additional twist that makes for a startled laugh when you suddenly realize what’s going on. They deserve to be popular. They deserve to be widely read and loved. These are the first books I can recall reading as an adult that made me want to go join the official society of fans of the author. Those who love these books love them for a lifetime; they are so rich and so pleasurable that they bear revisiting over the years as the reader grows alongside the characters and finds new ways to understand the story. And yet, in point of fact, nobody I know has read them, though I know a couple people who have been meaning to get around to it. And so I am taking to the Internet to make my own case for Powell to anyone out there who is in search of a new reading project as I was, or who simply needs something to read on these winter days. ”
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A wonderful article on why Powell’s books (A Dance to the Music of Time series) deserve, as the author writes, “a continuing readership.” She has a lovely blog too. (via eulimene)

A Dance is one of the most rewarding reading experiences I have ever had.

(Source: astrafteri)

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hrtbps:

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga.

(via intlniamhofmojo)

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kvetchlandia: A. M. Cassandre    Dubo: Ad for the Aperitif Dubbonet, Paris      1932
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kvetchlandia:

A. M. Cassandre    Dubo: Ad for the Aperitif Dubbonet, Paris      1932

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fuckyeahquantummechanics: i12bent: German physicist Werner Heisenberg was, according to the uncertainty principle, born Dec. 5, 1901 and died in 1976… Heisenberg got the Nobel in Physics in 1932 “for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen…” Above: The Formula Oh, the uncertainty.
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fuckyeahquantummechanics:

i12bent:

German physicist Werner Heisenberg was, according to the uncertainty principle, born Dec. 5, 1901 and died in 1976…

Heisenberg got the Nobel in Physics in 1932 “for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen…”

Above: The Formula

Oh, the uncertainty.

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kvetchlandia: Aldous Huxley     Uncredited and Undated Photograph “It is man’s intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. … Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic. Thus, no animal is clever enough, when there is a drought, to imagine that the rain is being withheld by evil spirits, or as punishment for its transgressions. Therefore you never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. No horse, for example would kill one of its foals to make the wind change direction. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat’s meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough.” Aldous Huxley, “Texts and Pretexts” 1932
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kvetchlandia:

Aldous Huxley     Uncredited and Undated Photograph

“It is man’s intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. … Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic. Thus, no animal is clever enough, when there is a drought, to imagine that the rain is being withheld by evil spirits, or as punishment for its transgressions. Therefore you never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. No horse, for example would kill one of its foals to make the wind change direction. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat’s meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough.” Aldous Huxley, “Texts and Pretexts” 1932

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