post post singularity (hawat via john schoenherr)

post post singularity

(hawat via john schoenherr)

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…and yes I said yes I will Yes. Trieste-Zurich-Paris, 1914-1921 [THE END] Itinerant Autumn concludes.

…and yes I said yes I will Yes.

Trieste-Zurich-Paris, 1914-1921

[THE END]

Itinerant Autumn concludes.

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violent storms plague the edge of the earth I do not know how this strange volume crossed the interdimensional brane, but the images of its strangely shaped world never fail to comfort and inspire me. Click image to view the large version. (via The World We Live In by the editorial staff of Life and published in 1955 somewhere in the multiverse)

violent storms plague the edge of the earth

I do not know how this strange volume crossed the interdimensional brane, but the images of its strangely shaped world never fail to comfort and inspire me. Click image to view the large version.

(via The World We Live In by the editorial staff of Life and published in 1955 somewhere in the multiverse)

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…and high in the middle I found this Evergreen Edition, collecting four short pieces by Samuel Beckett, at a thrift store that is not on my usual circuit. I have been there before, and it is not a great thrift store for books or anything else, but every once in a while I will go back. This recent thrift store used book score contains the short play, Ohio Impromptu, which was written by Beckett to be performed during the 1981 Beckett Festival at the land grant diploma mill that I may or may not have attended many years ago. The play draws some of its inspiration from his time as James Joyce’s secretary but also from Beckett’s lifelong insomnia, night terrors, and panic attacks. Somehow I had never heard of this play until earlier this year, and I have never found Beckett in a thrift store before; it is uncanny that this volume would be the first. Nothing is left to tell.

…and high in the middle

I found this Evergreen Edition, collecting four short pieces by Samuel Beckett, at a thrift store that is not on my usual circuit. I have been there before, and it is not a great thrift store for books or anything else, but every once in a while I will go back.

This recent thrift store used book score contains the short play, Ohio Impromptu, which was written by Beckett to be performed during the 1981 Beckett Festival at the land grant diploma mill that I may or may not have attended many years ago. The play draws some of its inspiration from his time as James Joyce’s secretary but also from Beckett’s lifelong insomnia, night terrors, and panic attacks. Somehow I had never heard of this play until earlier this year, and I have never found Beckett in a thrift store before; it is uncanny that this volume would be the first.

Nothing is left to tell.

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manuscripts don’t burn Despite a backlog of previously acquired and still undocumented thrift store used book scores, this copy of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov demanded immediate attention. Attempts to check this out from the local library have revealed that all cataloged copies have been misplaced in a variety of appropriately hellish bureaucratic ways. I haven’t read The Master and Margerita in more than ten years. This is the first English translation, and I know that it has its critics, but this is the translation that I read previously, and I am excited to read it again. (gorgeous cover illustration by Robert Goldstrom)

manuscripts don’t burn

Despite a backlog of previously acquired and still undocumented thrift store used book scores, this copy of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov demanded immediate attention. Attempts to check this out from the local library have revealed that all cataloged copies have been misplaced in a variety of appropriately hellish bureaucratic ways. I haven’t read The Master and Margerita in more than ten years. This is the first English translation, and I know that it has its critics, but this is the translation that I read previously, and I am excited to read it again.

(gorgeous cover illustration by Robert Goldstrom)

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mr leopold bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls… Itinerant Autumn continues apace.

mr leopold bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls…

Itinerant Autumn continues apace.

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stately, plump… We started today.

stately, plump…

We started today.

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