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A fraction of a second where the bastard is about Palermo this stuff right out of his weasely gullet.
The breakfast nook.
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Sublime!
Read the whole thing. A children’s activity book, coloring book, and more based on David Lynch’s Dune adaptation.
The Knacker's Yard | a photo story by Piotr Malecki | Panos Pictures -
Had to add the link to the photo gallery related to the earlier video. This story has everything for me: economics, man and animal relationship, photojournalism.
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We are now flaying our friends and submitting to be flayed ourselves, every few years or months or days, by the aid of the trenchant sunbeam which performed the process for Marsyas. All the world has to submit to it,– kings and queens with the rest. The monuments of Art and the face of Nature herself are treated in the same way. We lift an impalpable scale from the surface of the Pyramids. We slip off from the dome of St. Peter’s that other imponderable dome which fitted it so closely that it betrays every scratch on the original. We skim off a thin, dry cuticle from the rapids of Niagara, and lay it on our unmoistened paper without breaking a bubble or losing a speck of foam. We steal a landscape from its lawful owners, and defy the charge of dishonesty. We skin the flints by the wayside, and nobody accuses us of meanness.
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1Q84: That’s the new Haruki Murakami book, due out in the U.S. in late October. It’s over one thousand pages and it was published originally in three parts. My view of Murakami is that his later works are good but not special, and that his masterpieces are the early novels and also his non-fiction chronicle of the Tokyo gas attacks, Underground. My favorite is Hard Boiled Wonderland the End of the World, which also should appeal to science fiction fans.
IQ84 has been a smash hit in Japan and the never-easy-to-please Germans very much like it too. Here are other foreign reviews. I have read the first 130 pages and believe it may well be his masterpiece. It starts off with two dual stories, with what are recognizably Murakami-esque characters, but I won’t say more than that.
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‘Random House (1934) … 1st Authorized American edition.’
Even the cover is hard to read.
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Synsepalum dulcificum at Smart Energy -
Uncanny!