More pictures from The Morgan Library.
2 days ago
The Twilight Zone episode 08, “Time Enough At Last”
1 week ago
"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
CARL SAGAN (via Advice to Writers)
(Source: kadrey, via wilwheaton)
1 week ago
Miniature books! *gasp*
World’s smallest library by Jozsef Tari
He might just have the largest smallest library … ever!
(via my-ear-trumpet)
2 weeks ago
Library (by Filippo Venturi)
#lit
2 weeks ago
(via Create Book Shelves | RealSimple.com)
If I had more energy. And more shells.
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(by o_bbiond)
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"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it."
— Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), quoted in Boswell’s Life of Johnson (via canisfamiliaris)
3 weeks ago
"We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit from our parents, and we cherish the idea of passing those books on to our children. Indeed, how many of us started reading with a beloved book that belonged to one of our parents? We force worthy books on our friends, and we insist that they read them. We even feel a weird kinship for the people we see on buses or airplanes reading our books, the books that we claim. If anyone tries to take away our books—some oppressive government, some censor gone off the rails—we would defend them with everything that we have. We know our tribespeople when we visit their homes because every wall is lined with books. There are teetering piles of books beside the bed and on the floor; there are masses of swollen paperbacks in the bathroom. Our books are us. They are our outboard memory banks and they contain the moral, intellectual, and imaginative influences that make us the people we are today."
Cory Doctorow (via slekes)
(via prettybooks)
#lit
3 weeks ago
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1 month ago
(via survivaloftheillest)
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bibliotheca obscura
