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• Marriage and Río de la Plata

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 590
  Download audio file (1130097.mp3) Download MP3 The Rio de la Plata leads you right up to the doorstep of today’s Geo Quiz. The Río de la Plata or River Plate is located on the south-eastern coast of South America. It’s a funnel-shaped estuary is formed by the confluence of two rivers: the Uruguay and the ...
  16 hours ago

• Susana Bombal—Jorge Luis Borges

  
  orbis quintus — Authority: 124
  Tall in the evening, arrogant, aloof, she crosses the chaste garden and is caught in the shutter of that pure and fleeting instant which gives to us this garden and this vision, unspeaking, deep.  I see her here and now, but simultaneously I also see her haunting an ancient, twilit Ur of the Chaldees or coming ...
  1 day ago

• i have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library

  
  even*cleveland — Authority: 476
  Library at the Rijksmuseum via this fantastic list of the worlds most beautiful libraries. I was lucky enough to study at this one . (Post title courtesy of this dude .)
  1 week ago

• Himno

  
  Reditus: A Chronicle of Aesthetic Christianity — Authority: 509
  Esta mañanaHay en el aire la increíble fragancia de las rosas del paraíso.En la margen del ÉufratesAdán descubre la frescura del agua.Una lluvia de oro cae del cielo;Es el amor de Zeus.Salta del mar un pezY un hombre de Agrigento recordaráHaber sido ese pez.En la caverna cuyo nombre será AltamiraUna mano sin ...
  1 week ago

• Losing Our Heads Over Modest Gods

  
  Running After My Hat — Authority: 412
  [Above, a set of miniature Egyptian canopic jars depicting, according to the retailer, "Anubis, Horus, Monkey God, Prince."* Click image for original.]From whiskey river (which this week celebrated eight years of bringing to the Web wisdom about things we generally know, but generally do not speak of):ShintoWhen ...
  3 weeks ago

• Copper canyon daisy: In bloom this week

  
  Lifescapes — Authority: 107
  Delightful Tagetes lemmonii, or Copper canyon daisy--a tumble of bright marigold-like blossoms in the fall, a strong scent thats unforgettable...
  3 weeks ago

• Who’s in Big Brother’s Database? - nybooks.com

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 145
  Who’s in Big Brother’s Database? - nybooks.com On a remote edge of Utah’s dry and arid high desert, where temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may become America’s equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges’s Source: ...
  4 weeks ago

• Review: Finch by Jeff VanderMeer

  
  MentatJack — Authority: 407
  A double murder. Suspects pursued. Mysteries, the least of which is the murder. Finch is a unique book on many levels. In the acknowledgment, VanderMeer thanks his editor for “an analysis of and methodology for sentence fragments.” As a mystery it’s more important than ever to avoid spoilers in a review, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Top 25 Favorite Writers

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 127
  Much like for my favorite movies , here is a list of my Top 25 favorite writers. Vladimir Nabokov Ray Bradbury JRR Tolkien Kurt Vonnegut Douglas Adams Mark Twain The rest in alphabetical order by last name: Robert Benchley Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Albert Camus Raymond Chandler Umberto Eco ...
  4 weeks ago

• Have I Forgotten to Remember to Answer the Right Question?

  
  Running After My Hat — Authority: 412
  [Found this image here.]From whiskey river (highlighted portion):The Difficult Simplicity of Certain ContemplationsTapping a tarot card with her dusky finger,the woman tells mesit with your emptiness,in time answers will come.She says I know them all and only must remember.My friend tells me I must decide what is ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Kind of Face You SLASH!!! - Day 25: What Must the Inhabitant of This House Be Like?

  
  The Kind of Face You Hate — Authority: 414
  Another quick one today, but this time Im veering away from my usual source for lazy posts, the short short story, to stories that are only pretty short, and were written by literary giants. In this case, those writers are Isaac Bashevis Singer and Jorge Luis Borges. I dont think Ive ever read Singer before, but I ...
  5 weeks ago

• The mystery of the book: my encounter with Jorge Luis Borges

  
  Girvin Strategic Branding Design Blog — Authority: 125
  The mystical character of a man, a letter and an inspiration For a long time, I’ve been exploring the realm of the mysterious. Perhaps my whole life. But mystery is something that speaks to the character of that which is merely unseen. It is what is hidden. Being a creative, the idea of hidden is merely a place ...
  5 weeks ago

• The mystery of the book: my encounter with Jorge Luis Borges

  
  Girvin Strategic Branding Design Blog — Authority: 125
  The mystical character of a man, a letter and an inspirationFor a long time, I’ve been exploring the realm of the mysterious. Perhaps my whole life. But mystery is something that speaks to the character of that which is merely unseen. It is what is hidden. Being a creative, the idea of hidden is merely [...]
  5 weeks ago

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