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"And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." - H.G.
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“Some of the signs and portents were too painful to acknowledge. One night at Hall Street I stood at the entrance of our bedroom while Robert slept and had a vision of him stretched on a rack, his white shirt crumbling as he turned to dust before my eyes. He woke up and felt my horror. ‘What did you see?’ he cried. ‘Nothing,’ I answered, turning away, choosing not to accept what I had seen. Though I would someday hold his ashes in my hand.”
— Patti Smith, Just Kids
McCabe & Mrs. Miller enters the National Film Registry today.
Incredibly vivid and eerie colour photographs from Russia circa 1910. “Eerie,” because we’re so unused to looking at still photographic images from before the ’50s, let alone the ’10s, in colour with this sort of clarity. It feels like looking through a magic window through time. This isn’t even the most arresting image, but I find it fascinating to see the way we Jews dressed in that era. Old-school Judaism wasn’t always Hasidic-style black frock coats and hats—look at the kid on the right, that Eastern flair!
THIS IS
A PRINTING OFFICE
CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION
REFUGE OF ALL THE ARTS
AGAINST THE RAVAGES OF TIME
ARMOURY OF FEARLESS TRUTH
AGAINST WHISPERING RUMOUR
INCESSANT TRUMPET OF TRADE
FROM THIS PLACE WORDS MAY FLY ABROAD
NOT TO PERISH ON WAVES OF SOUND
NOT TO VARY WITH THE WRITER’S HAND
BUT FIXED IN TIME HAVING BEEN VERIFIED IN PROOF
FRIEND YOU STAND ON SACRED GROUND
THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE
This is another polite note to urge Tumblr-ers everywhere to put their name, or at least some kind of indication of who or what you are, somewhere on your blog, so I know who just followed me. A hint, a clue… something!
Beautiful trailer for A Swedish Love Story, the first film (1970) by genius Swedish director Roy Andersson (Songs From the Second Floor), presumably before his signature “tableau” style evolved. I never knew it got re-released in France in 2008; does anyone know if it’s watchable over here?
