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thomerama: N. Olga Fodor

Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:17:55 -0400

thomerama:

N. Olga Fodor

comicallyvintage: No Man Can Go On Loving A Weepy Woman…

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:51:11 -0400

comicallyvintage:

No Man Can Go On Loving A Weepy Woman…

"In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the..."

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:47:19 -0400

“In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”

- C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism (via bookoasis)

Books and dogs… another great combination! (Not quite as...

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:28:15 -0400

Books and dogs… another great combination! (Not quite as good as books and cats, but then again I’m biased….)

thesquareone: Last Train Home (by moaan) Books and...

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:25:17 -0400

thesquareone:

Last Train Home (by moaan)

Books and trains—they just go together.

cityofstrangersnyc: Five Minutes in 1980s New York

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:45:19 -0400

cityofstrangersnyc:

Five Minutes in 1980s New York

thetranscendentalmodernist: Untitled - Angelo (Pal Funk) - c....

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 03:00:55 -0400

thetranscendentalmodernist:

Untitled - Angelo (Pal Funk) - c. 1935

More of my favorite things: public libraries and men doing...

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:32:18 -0400

More of my favorite things: public libraries and men doing housework!

New York City Opera | Production Detail/View

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:31:00 -0500

New York City Opera | Production Detail/View:

Our chamber opera: The Rat Land.

comicallyvintage: Comically Vintage Top Tiip: Never listen to...

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:03:54 -0500

comicallyvintage:

Comically Vintage Top Tiip: Never listen to the floating heads of love advice.

booksnbuildings: Falkland Palace library, Scotland....

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:28:08 -0500

booksnbuildings:

Falkland Palace library, Scotland. (via)

Looking at these photos, I wonder if we librarians have been too eager to get rid of the bookshelf and turn our spaces into minimalist “media centers.”

Come in to the Booth. Asks Questions About Your Libraries. (by...

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 04:17:00 -0500

Come in to the Booth. Asks Questions About Your Libraries. (by New York Public Library)

Three men at dusting books, one bent over (by New York Public...

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:56:00 -0500

Three men at dusting books, one bent over (by New York Public Library)

I do like to see men dusting…especially dusting books… and if one is bent over, so much the better!

"A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and..."

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:38:14 -0500

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.”

- ORHAN PAMUK (via ilovereadingandwriting)

Library Appeal, 1973 ‘Too Precious to be...

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 03:23:16 -0500

Library Appeal, 1973

‘Too Precious to be Cut’

David Ricardo’s ‘Principles’ (1817) photographed as an image for the appeal.

(From the London School of Economics, via Flickr Commons)