February 2012
46 posts
AUSTIN KLEON: On advertising: Banksy vs. Gossage →
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This quote from Banksy has been making the rounds:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not…
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"Unsent Unwritten Letter to Husband" by Catherine... →
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Limitations are really good for you. They are a stimulant. If you were told to...
– David Hockney, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (via)
Donald Barthelme's Syllabus →
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by Kevin Moffett
There was a time when I fought against an impatience with reading, concealing, with partisanship, the fissures in my education. I confused difficulty with duplicity, and that which didn’t come easily, I often scorned. Then, in my last year of college in Gainesville, Florida, I was given secondhand a list of eighty-one books, the recommendations of Donald Barthelme...
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the...
– Franz Kafka (via troubled)
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pairaudeux:
David Foster Wallace’s syllabi and various other noted on documents
“So any student who groans, smirks, mimes machine gunning or onanism, chortles, eye-rolls, or in any way ridicules some other student’s in-class question/comment will be warned once in private and on the second offense, will be kicked out of class and flunked, no matter what week it is. If the offender is male, I am...
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