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Chris Marker: 1921 - yesterday.

I would have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering — which is not the opposite of forgetting — but its lining.

A shipwreck is a shipwreck is a…

A shipwreck is a shipwreck is a…

Just so you know. This is going to happen.

Just so you know. This is going to happen.also

Take one.


Take one.

(Source: beatbooks.com)

“If you’re in San Francisco” is a nice phrase.

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s copy of Sir Francis Bacon’s A Natural History in Ten Centuries.

Gerard Manley Hopkins’s copy of Sir Francis Bacon’s A Natural History in Ten Centuries.

(Source: ianmarr.co.uk)

Marilyn Monroe’s unpublished poetry

Marilyn Monroe’s unpublished poetry

(via donshare)

by Gary Barwin

by Gary Barwin

(Source: serifofnottingham, via visual-poetry)

Charles Olson: was such a delicate piece of machinery to handle and to lock to fire

Charles Olson:

was such a delicate

piece of machinery

to handle

and to lock to

fire

(Source: juhanitikkanen.blogspot.com)

nypl: Walt Whitman manuscript, “Go, said his soul to a poet.” The manuscript is comprised of two unequal-sized sheets of paper pasted together. Note in ink in Whitman’s hand running along upper left says: “Scrap of Rough Draft / W Whitman.” Additional note in Whitman’s hand written in red ink along seam where the two sheets are joined: “inscription on title page last edition Leaves of Grass.” From the Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

nypl:

Walt Whitman manuscript, “Go, said his soul to a poet.”

The manuscript is comprised of two unequal-sized sheets of paper pasted together. Note in ink in Whitman’s hand running along upper left says: “Scrap of Rough Draft / W Whitman.” Additional note in Whitman’s hand written in red ink along seam where the two sheets are joined: “inscription on title page last edition Leaves of Grass.”

From the Berg Collection of English and American Literature.