The Spiral Bookcase

taxidermy-in-art: Lina Jaros - Beyond The Walls

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:33:43 -0500

taxidermy-in-art:

Lina Jaros - Beyond The Walls

joshrlangleydesign: This is wise advice indeed. Quote from Ross...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:30:43 -0500

joshrlangleydesign:

This is wise advice indeed. Quote from Ross F. George, type designer and inventor of Speedball pens (1927)

harperperennial: Gorey living his best life.

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:28:45 -0500

harperperennial:

Gorey living his best life.

"Children don’t read ‘genres’; they read stories. Below a certain age, they don’t distinguish between..."

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:28:15 -0500

“Children don’t read ‘genres’; they read stories. Below a certain age, they don’t distinguish between ‘true’ and ‘not true,’ because they see no reason that a white rabbit shouldn’t possess a pocket watch, that whales shouldn’t talk, or that sentient beings shouldn’t live on other planets and travel in spaceships. Science-fiction tropes aren’t read as ‘science fiction’; they’re read as fiction. And fiction is read as reality. And sometimes reality lives under the bed and has very large teeth, and it’s no use pretending otherwise.”

- Margaret Atwood, The New Yorker, June 4 & 11, 2012 (via electronicsquid)

Photo

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:24:55 -0500

Abandoned Mill from 1866. Sorrento, Italy

Holey trinity

The Hotel del Salto, Tequendama

St Dunstan-in-the-East EC3R

St Etienne

Ivy Ruins

booksvscigarettes: House and people living in it in Hamburg,...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:23:36 -0500

booksvscigarettes:

House and people living in it in Hamburg, Germany c1904
Photograph by Hans Breuer

bookshelfcat: female cat loves books from Flickr by Maldita la...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:22:14 -0500

bookshelfcat:

female cat loves books from Flickr by Maldita la hora

Photo

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:06:47 -0400

martinaboone: In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious...

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:49:28 -0400

martinaboone:

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

"I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:47:29 -0400

“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing”

- Tove Jansson (via wingsforlashes)

"Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed: people reading. Books, I mean, not pocket-size devices..."

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:50:54 -0400

“Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed: people reading. Books, I mean, not pocket-size devices that bleep as if censorious, on which even Shakespeare scans like a spreadsheet. Americans buy more than half of all e-books sold internationally — unless Europeans fly regularly to the United States for the sole purpose of downloading reading material from an American I.P. address. […] I began asking the multilingual, multiethnic artists around me why that was. It was 2 a.m., at Soho House, a private club I’d crashed in the former Hitlerjugend headquarters. One installationist said, “Americans like e-books because they’re easier to buy.” A performance artist said, “They’re also easier not to read.” True enough: their presence doesn’t remind you of what you’re missing; they don’t take up space on shelves.”

- Joshua Cohen, My Berlin Airlift - NYTimes.com (via housingworksbookstore)