September 2011
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Watch“Here Orlean discusses Rin Tin Tin’s acting and athleticism in “Clash of the Wolves” (1925), “the most memorable” of the six Rin Tin Tin films still available.”
“The adventures of Rin Tin Tin,” Photo Booth, the New Yorker (Aug. 22, 2011)
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“It never stopped, even at night; it was our lullaby. It was our metronome, our...”
– Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted, “Checks.” (1993)
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Watch“There’s no place like here: Brazenhead Books.” (The secret bookshop in New York City)
- Andrew David Watson.
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“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.”
– Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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“If love truly is going out of fashion forever, which I do not believe, then...”
– Lester Bangs, “Where were you when Elvis Died,” Village Voice (1977)
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“Anyone who loves all men automatically is either slightly loony or...”
– Robert Christgau “Whooopee!” Village Voice (1969)
”’My Dyslexia’ Didn’t keep...
“I saw it this morning:
twenty-five years, my love,
twenty-five years have gone...”
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“Boulevard des Invalides”
-Pierre Peuchmaurd, translated from the French by E.C. Belli (Sept, 2011) via Guernica Magazine
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“Rin Tin Tin: From Battlefield to Hollywood,...
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“My dear Virginia,
Forgive the unconscionable delay in answering...”
– T.S. Eliot via the Paris Review (Sept. 20th, 2011)
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“It feels like the good Lord himself sliding down your throat in red velvet...”
– Frédérick to Baptiste about wine, - Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
“Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have...”
– Susan Sontag, “Notes on Camp” (1964)
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“Questions asked in TV commercials in 1993: ‘Have you ever borrowed a book...”
– Lapham’s Quarterly, “The Future” (Fall 2011)
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“Several weeks after Arafat’s death I visited the Muqata, his compound in...”
– David Samuels, “In a Ruined Country: How Yasir Arafat destroyed Palestine.” The Atlantic (Sept. 2005)
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“Myat Min was freed from prison on July 6, 2005. He spoke of his seven years in a...”
– “Drowing: Can the Burmese people rescue themselves?“ George Packer, The New Yorker (Aug. 25th, 2008)
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“Every Window on Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.”
– Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen (1993)
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“This is a time of great experimentation in journalism. In some respects the book...”
– Robert Boynton, “The New New Journalism, Circa 2011,” Byliner (Sept. 2011)
robsplantz asked: The mathematics equation is brilliant! ditto that and I'll have to make up an equally 0 equation for US Government studies!
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“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp,...”
– Moby Dick, Herman Melville (1851)
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“The new manxiety sitcoms shy away from getting quite so real. But the trend may...”
– “High Manxiety,” James Poniewozik TIME (May 25th, 2011)
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“I wonder why I feel so good. I feel sort of bruised and banged up but that...”
– Katie Roiphe, “My New York; On a Soaring Ride of Reminiscence, Speed and Wonder.” The New York Times, Oct. 1997
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“Be seated at the piano.
That lucid souvenir of the past,
The divertimento;...”
– “Poet, be seated at the piano,” - Wallace Stevens, via the Los Angeles Review of Books
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“New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and...”
– E.B. White, Here is New York
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“The throne adds dignity only by contrast to the surrounding humility. This...”
– The Emperor, Ryszard Kapuściński
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Watch“Compressed 02” By Kim Pimmel
“Ferrofluid is essentially liquid with polarized metal particles suspended in it, so that it responds to a magnetic field. Capillary action is another spooky attractive force that arises from the polarity of molecules in a liquid; it’s the adhesive force that draws water up a narrow straw against gravity.”
“Soap Bubbles Become...
