“If one wanted to find an absolute beginning point, a creation story, for California’s two greatest transformations of the world, these experiments with horse and camera would be it." — Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows (2003)"Arrangement of the cameras for taking the illustration of the paces" The...
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“This Guffawgraph is intended to form a refuge for destitute wit — an asylum for the thousands of orphan jokes — the millions of perishing puns, which are now wandering about without so much as a shelf to rest upon!” — Punch, Volume 1 (1841) Punch, or the London...
“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze?...
“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness...
“But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late....
“Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.” ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's LoverLady Chatterley's Lover D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Florence: Privately printed, 1928 Pirated edition, ca. 1930s PR6022 A93 L2 1928 In 1928, D.H. Lawrence privately printed his eleventh novel, Lady Chatterley’s...
“--Why me? --That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? --Yes. --Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no...
"The noblest acquisition of mankind is speech; and the most useful art is that of rendering it visible: that distinguishes Man from the brute creation...
"I've never seen her before," thought the building, squarely studying the girl across the street who, newspaper in hand, had stopped to stare. "What is she looking at, anyway?"Building Stories Chris Ware New York : Pantheon Books, 2012 PN6727 W285 B85 2012 This is a book. Or at least the title, Building Stories,...
