Old Books (ספרים עתיקים): Archive

“Hannah: Is that… . The BRONX!? Well how in the name of Heaven did I get to...”

– from Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner. … So, ending on that beautiful, short dialogue, I bid you all adieu until next year.

Jan 1st

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Jan 1st

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How Precious.

proustianmemory: I’ve seen this, and similar sentiments, plastered all over Tumblr, but I’m not re-blogging it. When you say “I can’t wait for 09 to be over,” you’re really saying “I can’t wait for something to fucking change.” And that’s not 09’s fault. It’s you. 09 doesn’t even exist. Like, 09 is an abstract concept that no one but people know about. Deer do not know that 09 is about to be...

Jan 1st

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“So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me...”

– Satan in Milton’s Paradise Lost

Jan 1st

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“Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number...”

– Plutarch’s Life of Alexander

Jan 1st

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““We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand’ring...”

– “Mutability” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dec 31st

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Obsolete Word of the Day

Vengesour. An avenger. 1382 Wyclif, Lev. xxvi, 25. And I shal brynge vpon eow a swerd, vengesoure of my boond of pees. 2009 graemebooks, pst 312. …so I threw the pint glass with the remnants of my black ‘n tan at his head and became her vengesour. -O.E.D.

Dec 31st

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Codex Sinaiticus →

For those of you who know Greek, or better yet, ancient Greek, this is an amazing site. On this site is a compiled and scanned 1600 year old manuscript which includes the earliest known existing record of the New Testament. It has only been online since July 2009 and I believe it will eventually be translated into English, but being able to see this ancient, old-as-hell manuscript is pretty...

Dec 31st

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Libraries: Still Awesome →

premad: You can browse high definition versions of several olde-style medical texts, including the beautiful and macabre “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” by the father of modern anatomy, Andreas Vesalius. All of this was brought to me by Stanford Medicine’s Twitter. All of the books can be found here, thanks to the National Libraries of Medicine. This is a great link! Being able to look through...

Dec 31st

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“We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don’t protest, we are...”

– Vladimir from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

Dec 31st

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Authenticity, Idiocy and Christ

thenewinquiry: In Rowan William’s book, Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction, he begins with a discussion of a letter Dostoevsky wrote after being released from a labor camp in 1854. In the letter Dostoevsky writes: “if someone were to prove to me that Christ were outside of the truth, and it was really the case that the truth lay outside of Christ, then I should choose to stay with...

Dec 30th

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Word of the Day

Quodibet 1. Any question in philosophy or theology proposed as an exercise in argument or disputation; hence, a scholastic debate, thesis, or exercise on a question of this kind. (Historical usage only) Example: 1377 Langl. P. Pt. B. xv. 375. Of diuinite maistres, That shulde… answere to arguments and also to a quodibet.. if suche weren apposed. 2009 graemebooks, tumblr. Someday I hope...

Dec 30th

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Dec 29th

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Dec 29th

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Word of the Day

Plenipotent Invested with or possessing full power or authority. 1667 Milton, Paradise Lost, x., 405; “My Substitutes, I send ye, and Create Plenipotent on Earth, of matchless might Issuing from mee.” - taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, 1971 edition.

Dec 29th

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“You see, “alcohol” in Latin is “spiritus” and you use...”

– Carl Jung’s reply (out of context) to William (Bill) Wilson, a co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, who thanked the former for his influential work. Jung’s letter is an endorsement of A.A.’s belief in a spiritual solution to their members’ alcoholism.

Dec 29th

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Dec 28th

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THE BAUHAUS GROUP Six Masters of Modernism →

(via art-documents) It seems that I will have to add another book in my “to read” pile. This looks good.

Dec 28th

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Dec 28th

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“Los prejuicios son sumamente difíciles de erradicar de un corazón cuyo suelo...”

– Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte. (via spherescolorees) Amo este libro. (Did I write that correctly?) Anyway, this is a great example of a Bildungsroman (for women?).

Dec 28th

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