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The archives are best just before sleep, as memory and imagination take sway. Every archive has an intended logic, a day logic, with well-defined topics, alphabetical orderings, hierarchical taxonomies, or cross-referenced indexes. At night we see less of what is intended and more of what is there. We notice that the butterfly specimen cases ended up next to the drawers of pressed flowers. The minutes of the astronomy club are on the highest shelves, and some papers of Francis Bacon the essayist got in among papers of Francis Bacon the painter. Nothing can be as crowded with meaning as an archive and not earn its own dream logic of short circuits and coincidences.

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Charlie Loyd in The Garden, which is the last, wonderful bit of Contents Magazine’s phenomenal issue on the archive.

This is one of those rare pieces of writing that hits some weird part of my brain just the right way, making me want to read and re-read and re-read and makes me suddenly need to write things I didn’t even remember I knew. It’s one of the rare strings of words that reads so correctly I have trouble not weeping.
(via ampersandean)

One reason it matters to me that Corey said nice things about this is that she wrote this.

(via vruba)

mpdrolet:

Leo Matiz

invisiblestories:

“Far from being writers -founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language, diggers of wells and builders of houses- readers are travelers; they move across lands belonging to someone else, like nomads poaching their way across fields they did not write, despoiling the wealth of Egypt to enjoy it themselves. Writing accumulates, stocks up, resist time by the establishment of a place and multiplies its production through the expansionism of reproduction. Reading takes no measures against the erosion of time (one forgets oneself and also forgets), it does not keep with what it acquires, or it does so poorly, and each of the places through which it passes is a repetition of the lost paradise.”

-Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (via eideticfields)

millsinabout:

My friend Dave Strick makes pretty amazing animations, in my opinion:

This is called “Boolean 2.” More are here.

The average reader is pleased to observe anybody’s wooden leg being stolen.

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—	Flannery O’Connor, with what continues to strike me as an incredibly succinct and useful piece of plot advice. (via mttbll) That entire essay (“Writing Short Stories,” collected in Mystery and Manners), is the most refreshing tonic. (via sarahwrotethat)

tphd:

CHECK OUT MY IMPRESSIVE COLLECTION OF PHANTOM LIMBS NONE OF THEM ARE MINE

IM GOING TO RELEASE THEM INTO ORBIT AROUND THE MOON

Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine

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thelovelyloner:

Your Hand in Mine - Explosions in the Sky

cinephilearchive:

A few days ago, I received out-of-print gem The Making of Kubrick’s 2001 (edited wonderfully by Jerome Agel, 1970). I’m still over the moon.

There have been countless words written about Stanley Kubrick’s visionary masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey — some good, some bad — but after 45 years, this superb book remains the only one you’ll ever really need. It is such a shame that this book is out-of-print. It is filled with everything you ever wanted to know about 2001. It leads off with Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel” and closes with a complete reprint of Stanley Kubrick’s interview with Playboy magazine. In between are profiles, interviews with technical advisors, effects secrets revealed, letters to Stanley from the moviegoing public, as well as reviews of the film, both good and bad. A fascinating snapshot of a moment in history when the world was caught off guard by a motion picture. Search your local used book stores, like I did. If you’re a Kubrick fan, it’s worth the effort.

Now you can join me, I’ll fly you to the moon!

The Making of Kubrick’s 2001
(NOTE: For educational purposes only)

With endless thanks to Matt DeGennaro

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