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theparisreview:

In Japanese, tsundoku means, “the act of buying books and not reading them, leaving them to pile up.”

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theparisreview:

“[Chatwin]’s making you feel the contradictions, the exhausting contradictions, that make a place.”

Reading In Patagonia in Patagonia

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enio iommi

the hearth is a lonely hunter,    carson mc cullers

pumasport:

Fierce competitors on the water, sailors are friends once their boats hit the dock. Our deepest sympathy to Andrew “Bart” Simpson’s family. PUMA’s thoughts are with Artemis Racing and the entire America’s Cup organization after yesterday’s tragic capsize in San Francisco Bay.

theparisreview:

Santa Maria De Nieva, 14 October 1979

Seen from the air, the jungle below looked like kinky hair, seemingly peaceful, but that is deceptive, because in its inner being nature is never peaceful. Even when it is denatured, when it is tamed, it strikes back at its tamers and reduces them to pets, rosy pigs, which then melt like fat in a skillet. This brings to mind the image, the great metaphor, of the pig in Palermo, which I heard had fallen into a sewer shaft: it lived down there for two years and continued to grow, surviving on the garbage that people threw down the shaft, and when they hauled the pig out, after it had completely blocked the drain, it was almost white, enormously fat, and had taken on the form of the shaft. It had turned into a kind of monumental, whitish grub, rectangular, cubic, and wobbly, an immense hunk of fat that could move only its mouth to eat, while its legs had shrunk and retracted into the body fat.

—From Werner Herzog’s jungle journals

scribnerbooks:

15 essential novels about New York City: http://bit.ly/10nquJy

Cinco De Mayo may have passed, but it’s not too late to enter EXPOSURE! http://bit.ly/14fB7Ft

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