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Causa. I join these words for four people, Some others may overhear them, world, I am sorry for you, You do not know these four people. Ezra Pound / "My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed." Ludwig Wittgenstein / "On a deux vies, et la deuxième commence quand on se rend compte qu’on n’en a qu’une" Confucius / "My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection." Man Ray / «Todas las teorías del dadaísmo y del surrealismo son monótonamente repetidas. El “ready-made” inunda el globo. Cuando todo sea “ready-made” no habrá que tocar nada» Salvador Dalí, 1932 / "existir apenas levemente / como el sol de tarde que dibuja / sombras de las hojas de los plátanos / en la pared que da al oeste." Beatriz Vignoli / "Anything can happen. Especially nothing." Michel Houellebecq
Saul Steinberg, Autogeography, 1966 (via) From “Descent from Paradise: Saul Steinberg’s Italian Years”: For most of his adult life, Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) drew maps—maps of real or imaginary locations, maps of words and of concepts. Often the maps are of actual places refracted through the artist’s mental constructs, as in View of the World from 9th Avenue, his famous March 29, 1976 New Yorker cover, which, reprinted as a poster, copied, and appropriated for many other cities of the world, became his personal nightmare; even today, it remains the icon that most easily identifies him. There is, however, another splendid map, completed ten years earlier; although intended for The New Yorker, it was never fully published in Steinberg’s lifetime. Entitled Autogeography, it is a bird’s-eye view of a green territory dotted with the names of many locales, large and small, from every corner of the world. A very blue, winding river flows through the territory, and on the bottom right it skirts a small lake with an island. On the island is the word “Milano,” while on the shore northeast of the island we find a locality named “Tortoreto (Teramo).”

Saul Steinberg, Autogeography, 1966 (via)

From “Descent from Paradise: Saul Steinberg’s Italian Years”:

For most of his adult life, Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) drew maps—maps of real or imaginary locations, maps of words and of concepts. Often the maps are of actual places refracted through the artist’s mental constructs, as in View of the World from 9th Avenue, his famous March 29, 1976 New Yorker cover, which, reprinted as a poster, copied, and appropriated for many other cities of the world, became his personal nightmare; even today, it remains the icon that most easily identifies him. There is, however, another splendid map, completed ten years earlier; although intended for The New Yorker, it was never fully published in Steinberg’s lifetime. Entitled Autogeography, it is a bird’s-eye view of a green territory dotted with the names of many locales, large and small, from every corner of the world. A very blue, winding river flows through the territory, and on the bottom right it skirts a small lake with an island. On the island is the word “Milano,” while on the shore northeast of the island we find a locality named “Tortoreto (Teramo).”

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