May 23, 2013
teachingliteracy: dontgifadamn: The City of Books at José Vasconcelos Library, Mexico City The Carlos Monsiváis Personal Library may be housed in an historic 1807 building, but it demonstrates a novel way of organising books, and a suitably modern interior to match. Occupying a section of Mexico City’s old José Vasconcelos Library, it is part of a new literary venture called the City of Books showcasing the intellectual journey of five key Mexican thinkers (Ali Chumacero, Carlos Monsiváis, José Luis Martínez, Jaime García Terrés and Antonio Castro Leal) through their personal book collections. A team of five architects was appointed to work on the interior design and create a separate space for each of the literary collections. The Carlos Monsiváis Personal Library is the latest to be completed and is designed by JSa Arquitectura. It occupies a walnut-clad, double-height row of rooms on the west wing and aims to bring the public closer to the mind of the writer by arranging his books to showcase the development of his thinking. Click through the gallery to see all five spaces.

teachingliteracy:

dontgifadamn:

The City of Books at José Vasconcelos Library, Mexico City

The Carlos Monsiváis Personal Library may be housed in an historic 1807 building, but it demonstrates a novel way of organising books, and a suitably modern interior to match. Occupying a section of Mexico City’s old José Vasconcelos Library, it is part of a new literary venture called the City of Books showcasing the intellectual journey of five key Mexican thinkers (Ali Chumacero, Carlos Monsiváis, José Luis Martínez, Jaime García Terrés and Antonio Castro Leal) through their personal book collections. A team of five architects was appointed to work on the interior design and create a separate space for each of the literary collections. The Carlos Monsiváis Personal Library is the latest to be completed and is designed by JSa Arquitectura. It occupies a walnut-clad, double-height row of rooms on the west wing and aims to bring the public closer to the mind of the writer by arranging his books to showcase the development of his thinking. Click through the gallery to see all five spaces.

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May 22, 2013
ponderful: Sandro Botticelli, Madonna of the Pomegranate, circa 1487. Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy.

ponderful:

Sandro Botticelli, Madonna of the Pomegranate, circa 1487. Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy.

(Source: ilbotticello, via thomerama)

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(Notes: 1,152)
  
May 21, 2013
aseaofquotes: Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible  Submitted by anirayda.

aseaofquotes:

Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible 

Submitted by anirayda.

(via teachingliteracy)

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(Notes: 1,816)
  
May 20, 2013

(Source: paniwonka, via bookporn)

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(Notes: 1,163)
  
May 19, 2013
"I always thought love was a kind of literature."

— Parade’s End. (via xalaila)

(via bookporn)

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(Notes: 186)
  
May 18, 2013
aseaofquotes: Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

aseaofquotes:

Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse

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(Notes: 1,118)
  
May 17, 2013
"I want you to crave me. From my lips, up to my words."

—

J.E (via thatkindofwoman)

(incredibly sensual set of 13 words.)

(Source: 090108, via teachingliteracy)

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(Notes: 59,528)
  
May 16, 2013
sekhemkare: Shelley’s own fair copy of Ozymandias.

sekhemkare:

Shelley’s own fair copy of Ozymandias.

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(Notes: 12)
  
May 16, 2013
"She had a few moments of nakedness when she seemed like an unborn soul; a soul left of body. As if she were caught up in one of those habitual currents which after a certain time forms experience in the mind, so that one repeats words without being aware any longer who originally spoke them."

— Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse (via violentwavesofemotion)

(via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)

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(Notes: 176)
  
May 15, 2013
fishstickmonkey: Five-hundred-year-old printing blocks of the sacred Tandjur, Choni Lamasery, Kansu, Tibet, April 1925 - Joseph F. Rock

fishstickmonkey:

Five-hundred-year-old printing blocks of the sacred Tandjur, Choni Lamasery, Kansu, Tibet, April 1925 - Joseph F. Rock

(Source: madfuture, via bookporn)

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(Notes: 596)
  
May 14, 2013
"Murder is like potato chips: you can’t stop with just one."

—

Stephen King (Under the Dome)

[Submitted by Pink Oranges. Thanks, miss!]

(via criminalwisdom)

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(Notes: 237)
  
May 13, 2013
aseaofquotes: Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

aseaofquotes:

Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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(Notes: 2,015)
  
May 12, 2013
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion, or doubt. Happiness is never grand."

— Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (via thechocolatebrigade)

(via leila-lilly)

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(Notes: 112)
  
May 12, 2013
ennuiandapathy: I’m officially going on hiatus for the next couple of weeks until my exams are over and done with. If I don’t pass these I’m going to have to become a stripper and quite frankly the world doesn’t deserve that x

ennuiandapathy:

I’m officially going on hiatus for the next couple of weeks until my exams are over and done with.

If I don’t pass these I’m going to have to become a stripper and quite frankly the world doesn’t deserve that x

(Source: joe-daism)

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(Notes: 63)
  
May 11, 2013
aseaofquotes: Mackie Burt, Above

aseaofquotes:

Mackie Burt, Above

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