Feb 14, 2023 Book of the Week — Apologie du Silence en Amour

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Silence, then, becomes the companion of lovers...

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Apr 17, 2022 Book of the Week — Easter

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"Above in sun and wind the fertile rains, Below in clamorous waters thriving fish, and fields of summer filled with living bread, and fields of autumn filled with living wine." Easter W.R. Johnson (1933-) with relief prints by Claire Van Vliet West Burke, Vermont: The Janus Press, 1970 Z232.5 J36 J639 1970 Claire Van...

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Sep 20, 2021 Book of the Week — Pantographia

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"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...

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Mar 23, 2021 Rare Books Virtual Lecture — These Four Walls

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“The tongue lies on the table, writing, writhing, spelling out the breath of its efforts in an unseemly desire to be seen.” — Johanna Drucker The Word Made Flesh Johanna Drucker New York: Bow and Arrow Press, 1989 PS3554 R75 W6 1989 Arch Kitty Maryatt Claremont, CA: Scripps College Press, 2010 N7433.35 U6...

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Feb 11, 2020 We Recommend — Writing Across the Civil-Military Divide

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My wide hips raised two warriors from sweat & clay, blood sonata & birth cry. I said anger & avarice, & they called themselves Cain & Abel. I said gold, & they opened up the earth. I said love, & they ventured east & west, south & north. I said evil, &...

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Dec 23, 2019 BOOK OF THE WEEK — OTIOT (SACRED SIGNS)

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“When the Holy One, blessed be He, was about to make the world,  all the letters of the Alphabet were still embryonic,  and for two thousand years the Holy One, blessed be He, had contemplated them and toyed with them.  When He came to create the world,...

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Oct 07, 2019 Book of the Week — Remarks on Colour

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“A colour shines in its surroundings. (Just as eyes only smile in a face)” - Ludwig Wittgenstein Remarks on Colour Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951) Pasadena, CA: Archetype Press, Art Center College of Design, 2000 xBF 789 C7 W513 2000 During the last few years of his life, Ludwig Wittgenstein...

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May 01, 2019 For the Voice!

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"But surely the book is now everything. It has become in our time what the cathedral with its frescoes and stained glass used to be, what the palaces and museums, where people went to look and learn, used to be. The book has become the...

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Dec 11, 2018 Hillacre Bookhouse: Fed Up With Fads, Wary of Cults, and Independent Enough

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“At Riverside, Connecticut, between the road and the river, lies an acre of land, long and narrow and tilted up a little toward the west, so that the dwellers by the road at the top may look across the valley to the setting sun. Half...

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May 20, 2018 We recommend — The Book Restructured: Wire-Edge Binding

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Everything corresponds. Sweet is easy: happiness. Tanginess is trickier: people going the wrong way and calling it right; the tendency not to complain while harboring envious and covetous feelings. Sourness is things you like and don’t like — woven together. Smokiness is slow vision, seeing...

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