May 2010
April 2010
“If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then...”
– John Cage (via hotparade)
“We need not destroy the past. It is gone”
– John Cage (via hotparade)
Album title: Volume 26: Lower Egypt. Pyramids.
Album title: Volume 26: Lower Egypt. Pyramids. Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection Dates: December 21, 1892 – March 8, 1893 Call no.: 4098B.104 v26 Administrative and biographical history: This scrapbook is album number 26 out of 46 albums created by William Vaughn Tupper, who lived from 1835-1898, to document his travels. The scrapbooks contain annotated images of the Tupper Family’s...
The smell of saffron, garlic, dried pepper and...
When the Taliban rolled into Kabul in September 1996, sixteen decrees were broadcast on Radio Sharia.
A new era had begun.
1.Prohibition against female exposure.
It is prohibited for drivers to pick up women not wearing the burka, on pain of arrest. If such women are observed out on the streets, their homes will be visited and their husbands punished. If the women wear inciting or attractive...
Prohibition against reproduction of pictures.
I TALEBANI
Prendiamo esempio dai nostri fratelli (minori) musulmani e inseriamo nella Costituzione le seguenti regole [tratte dal libro “The Bookseller of Kabul”, di Asne Seierstad. Purtroppo non ho trovato una traduzione in italiano. Prego sostituire “moschea” con “chiesa”, “Islam” con “tradizione giudaico-cristiana”, e...
“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much...”
– Hermann Hesse (via devilduck) (via culturesavage)
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Thomas Adès / ‘Darknesse...
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Jonny Greenwood / Prospectors...
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Morton Feldman / Rothko Chapel...
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Islaja / “Aallot ja äänet”
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“I live on earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (via onlyondemairt) (via invisiblestories)
“My mission is to kill time, and time’s to kill me in its turn. How comfortable...”
– Emil Cioran revisited (via billyjane)
“For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein (via hotparade)
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become...”
– Friederich Nietzsche (via awritersruminations) (via myriadflesh)
