I recently visited the west side High Line for the first time. No one had really told me about it and I hadn’t even heard of it until I saw a feature talk by Robert Hammond on TED. Hammond and co-founder Joshua David advocated for turning the High Line, which was built in the 1930’sContinue reading “New York, Cont’d, and Real Books”
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Los libros y la noche
“The universe, (which others call the Library), is made up of an indefinite, and perhaps infinite, number of hexagonal corridors, with shafts of ventilation in the center enclosed by very low rails. From any corridor, one can see the floors above and below, interminably… Like all men in the Library, I’ve traveled in my youth;Continue reading “Los libros y la noche”
LingShan
– Gao XingJian, “Sonambule” “In those contaminated surroundings I was taught that life was the source of literature, that literature had to be faithful to life, faithful to real life. My mistake was that I had alienated myself from life and ended up turning my back on real life. Life is not the same asContinue reading “LingShan”
mabel lee 