January 2012
4 posts
“The Circumlocution Office was (as everybody knows without being told) the most...”
– Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, chap. 10, 1855-1857.
moledro
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.
“It is our contention that many disease symptoms and psychological issues can be...”
– Alternative Medicine that WORKS - Taking WCTB Therapy into the mainstream, Answers in Genes, 23 octobre 2011.
December 2011
13 posts
“50 % des RMIstes parisiens ont une activité artistique ou intellectuelle.”
– Anne et Marine Rambach, Les Nouveaux intellos précaires (2009), J’ai Lu, 2011, p. 41.
“Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger,...”
– Terry Pratchett, Snuff, Doubleday, 2011, p. 19.
“You are mistaking value for worth, I think.”
– Terry Pratchett, Snuff, Doubleday, 2011, p. 38.
“The sound of the gentle rattle of china cup on china saucer drives away all...”
– Terry Pratchett, Snuff, Doubleday, 2011, p. 325.
Benjamin on the future of the book
evgenymorozov:
Couldn’t be more timely:
…already today, as the contemporary mode of knowledge-production demonstrates, the book is an obsolete mediation between two different card-filing systems. For everything essential is found in the note boxes of the researcher who writes it, and the reader who studies it assimilates it into his own note file.
Walter Benjamin, Einbahnstraße, 1928
November 2011
6 posts
“You’d like to think that since these institutions are getting the best students,...”
– Chistopher Drew, “Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard)”, The New York Times, 4 novembre 2011.
October 2011
6 posts
“Tout ce qui est pensé ou senti en vue de l’expression est insignifiant.”
– Jean Rostand, Carnet d’un biologiste, Stock, 1959, réédition 1973, p. 34.
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“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else...”
– George Orwell (via philphys et newsweek)
September 2011
19 posts
“And yet it seems to me that translating from one language into another, except...”
– Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter LXII, via.
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“The problem is that peer-review is a privatized industry in which public...”
– Martin Robbins, Open science, Freedom of Information and the Big Journal Monopoly, The Lay scientist on Guardian Science, 5 September 2011.
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August 2011
20 posts
“Th newspaper does ivrything f’r us. It runs th’ polis foorce...”
– Finley Peter Dunne, as Dooley, Chicago Post, source.
