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The Library, Shakespeare’s House, Stratford Upon Avon.
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"It is one of the peculiarities of the imagination that it is always at the end of an era. What happens is that it is always attaching itself to a new reality, and adhering to it. It is not that there is a new imagination but that there is a new reality."
- Wallace Stevens, “The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words”(Source: leopoldgursky)
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"The city was teaching him a lesson. There was to be no escape from intrusion, from noise. He had crossed the ocean to separate his life from life. He had come in search of silence and found a loudness greater than the one he left behind. The noise was inside him now."
- Salman Rushdie, Fury -
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"I think that’s one of the jobs of poets, is they stare at their own death, and through it they still see the world - the world of ten thousand things. You know poetry is about time running out, to some extent. You can think of that purely formally - the line ends, the stanza ends, and the poem itself ends. And I think one of the things that’s so pleasurable about reading poetry, rather than hearing it, is that you immediately know where the poem’s going to end. You can see it just in glancing at it. And there’s something… that may be reassuring about that."
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In the academic world Dover Publications is widely known for publishing standard texts in mathematics. To me they’re known for publishing books with the best cover designs around, which truly make them stand out among the boring rest.
These are fantastic. If you can make a math book look inviting … well, you’ve done something special.
I kid, of course. Math is awesome. I’m only allowed to give math a hard time because I am the child of mathematicians.
Any other favorite artistic textbook covers? Reblog with your favorites or send them my way via the fan mail button or Twitter.
(via proofmathisbeautiful)
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"When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is. The strange thing about strangers is that they are unknown and known. There is a pattern to her, a shape I understand, a private geometry that numbers mine. She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am. She is a stranger. She is the strange that I am beginning to love."
- Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods(Source: quote-book)
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“This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.” — Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
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What it’s like at a library: Reality Check 4
The Stereotype:
The Fantasy:
The Reality:
(via librarianista)
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reading this! enjoying this!
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
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Lady, just admit it
literallyunbelievable, your source for fools reading The Onion.
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