graveyarddirt:

František Halas: To The Children, via josefskrhola

llustrated by Ota Janeček. Prague 1961.

downlo:

Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986)

I’ve dedicated my life to reading. My father showed me his library, which seemed to me infinite, and he told me to read whatever I wanted, but that if something bored me I should put it down immediately—that is, the opposite of obligatory reading. Reading has to be a happiness, and philosophy gives us happiness, and that is the contemplation of a problem. The world continues to be more enigmatic, more enchanting. For me reading and writing are two equally pleasurable activities. When writers talk about the torture of writing, I don’t understand it. For me writing is a necessity. When I was young, I thought about what I considered the heroic life of my military elders, a life that had been rich, and mine—the life of a reader—seemed to me a poor life. Now I don’t believe that. The life of a reader can be as rich as any other life. Suppose Alonso Quijano had never left his library, or bookstore, as Cervantes called it, I believe that his life reading would have been as rich as when he conceived the project of turning himself into Quixote.

(Harper’s/April 2008)

Feliz cumpleanos, from one whose memory is also “full of verses and full of books”.

ultrapj:

現代の構造設計。- Eduardo Torroja “640x608pix ▪▫

Alternative title⇲ENG …『  Philosophy of structures 』

⊂  The structures of Eduardo Torroja 

⊂  Participation in the following structures & large-scale projects

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nevver:

Mansur

tobeshelved:

heycarol:

think for yourself.

not everything is on tv.

thomasopburn:

michel foucault at home

(Source: anoctopussquatingonyourbrain)

yama-bato:

Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)

Author: Ward, James, 1851-1924
Volume: 2
Subject: Decoration and ornament — History; Architecture — History
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall

Thank you very much oldbookillustrations.

pdvmorris:

Love the folks at littlebrownmushroom and have followed Alec Soth’s work for some time, he’s got “stuff” at the Brighton Bienial too which we have checked out….all things book and bookish is one of our files here! 

littlebrownmushroom:

Mushrooms + 40,000 Discarded Books = 1 Garden of Knowledge

blogut:

Heaven’s Bookstore by Thong Van

nervepinch:

Empirical investigations of the natural world

arsvitaest:

Post-Victorian Design Ideas | wrongdistance

arsvitaest:

Post-Victorian Design Ideas | wrongdistance

maggot-p:

(via jenetevoisplustuesmorte)