“ And then one of them opened the bottle and poured forth the nectar of the gods into our respective glasses, the same ones we’d been drinking from before, which some consider a sign of slovenliness and others the ultimate refinement, since when the glass is, shall we say, glazed with mezcal, the tequila is more at ease, like a naked woman in a fur coat. ”
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Belaño (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
Another beautiful album from Patrick Watson.
“ Pynchon is obviously capable of the most intricate literary structures—plots and counterplots and symbols that twist and tangle in time and space. His expert knowledge encompasses: spiritualism, statistics, Pavlovian psychology, London in 1944, Berlin, Zürich and Potsdam in 1945, chemical engineering, the Baltic black market, plastics, rocket propulsion and ballistics, economic and military complexes, international industrial cartels (GE, ICI, Shell, Agfa, I.G. Farben), Tarot cards and the Kabbala, witchcraft, espionage, Rossini operas, pop songs and show tunes of the thirties and forties, limericks, cocaine and hashish fantasies, and the history of American clothing styles and slang. ”
From Richard Locke’s NYT review of Gravity’s Rainbow, March 11, 1973
“ Lightning flickers all around the horizon, and thunder that reminds the military men on board of drumfire announcing battles they’re not sure now if they’ve survived or still dream, still can wake up into and die… ”
Gravity’s Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
My favourite fake commercial in film history.
Putney Swope (1969)- Ethereal Cereal
(Source: youtube.com)
“ To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other. ”
I’ve had the fortune to visit Moqattam, the Church of Saint Simon, and pass through the amazing neighbourhoods of the Zabbaleen.
Here’s hoping that the new constitution loosens restrictions around the building and repairing of churches, even though it sounds like a long shot.
Really cool use of the camera to add interactivity to this video.
Sorry to all the Drake fans out there, but Ghost does it again. The funniest.
