"The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the only bird which bears up its own cage."
- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (via bookmania)
Ramblings and observations from Mary Ryan's Bulimba
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
- Mark Twain (via literary-fernweh)
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3 months ago
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Spencer Finch
366 (EMILY DICKINSON’S MIRACULOUS YEAR)
2009
This work is based on the year 1862, Emily Dickinson’s annus mirabilis, when she wrote an amazing 366 poems in 365 days. It is a real-time memorial to that year, which burns for exactly one year. The sculpture is comprised of 366 individual candles arranged in linear sequence, each of which burns for 24 hours. The color of each candle matches a color mentioned in the corresponding poem; poems in which no color is mentioned are made out of natural paraffin.
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Source: absolumentmoderne
7 months ago
| Notes: 554
"She was perfect, perfect, exactly what he had been imagining: fresh-faced and curvy; he could just imagine her in a figure-hugging black dress with a lace-edged white apron. He would teach her to use the till, and show her around the stockroom; there would be a bit of banter, and perhaps a little bonus on days when the takings were up."
- J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy (via bookmania)
8 months ago
| Notes: 2011
