September 2011
15 posts
“Videmus novam auroram lumine mare, terram, et caelum spargere.”
– Latin homework can be beautiful
Productive weekend:
Phone activated, bank account opened, subfusc purchased, room decorated, favorite bike/coffee shop discovered, ice cream with new friend had, the definition of “Native United States-ian” with a German discussed, botanic gardens visited, and sleep slept.
Words have not been coming naturally, I think because physical activity has been lacking for the past month. Buying a bicycle...
“The following concepts, here introduced into art theory for the first time,...”
– Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, 1936
Rain, rain, rain!
It’s raining for the first time since I arrived! Finally the dreaded drizzle of the British Isles knocks on my window. Gently. It’s bouncing off the awning of Blackwell’s Books.
I felt compelled to take a stroll so, wearily laying aside my Latin translation homework, I grabbed my umbrella and prepared to face the wet streets. FYI: cobblestones make excellent puddles. This...
“How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is ...”
– Elaine Scarry, On Beauty
“[History] is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.”
– John Berger, Ways of Seeing 