Nietzsche Typescript, written on his writing ball: A Poem. Copyright: The Goethe and Schiller Archive, Weimar, Germany
The poem in English translation:
“THE WRITING BALL IS A THING LIKE ME: MADE OF IRON
YET EASILY TWISTED ON JOURNEYS.
PATIENCE AND TACT ARE REQUIRED IN ABUNDANCE
AS WELL AS FINE FINGERS TO USE US.”
(Friedrich Nietzsche, on February 16th 1882)
Flávio de Carvalho em exposição, por Marcelo Moreschi
Foi com letras maiúsculas que Flávio de Carvalho explicitou, nos idos dos anos 1930, a dificuldade que ele procurou imprimir em sua obra. “O BELO HOJE SE TORNOU UMA COISA ESPINHOSA, UM BICHO FEIO E DIFÍCIL DE AMANSAR”, dizia em um artigo publicado no Diário de S. Paulo, cujo título, não menos sugestivo, era: “A única arte que presta é a arte anormal”. [2] Postulado em relação ao qual exposições recentes sobre o artista têm ido na contramão, ao tentar domar a besta para o público. Entretanto, é justamente desse paradoxal processo de domesticação museológica que surge a possibilidade de uma análise para entender aspectos decisivos da obra de Carvalho.
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Found poem, And hear, from the faulty digitized pages of The atmosphere by Camille Flammarion and James Glaisher, 1873
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“Tipped-in erratum slip scanned over page. Interestingly, the work is Bibliophobia, which concerns a decline in interest in the rare book trade.” Submitted by interestingmiscellanea.
From p. 17 of Bibliophobia by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1832). Original from Ghent University. Digitized September 15, 2008.
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TROPICOOL DOG FREEEZER by KOΔƎK
Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Matt Sweeney - Rudy Foolish
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David Lynch - “Crazy Clown Time” (Official Video)
seedy: E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962
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This centennial edition of E. E. Cumming’s Complete Poems, published in celebration of his birth on October 14, 1894, contains all of the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime.
At the time of his death in 1962, E. E. Cummings was, next to…
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"On the contrary, the interesting thing for me was extracting from its practical domain or its utilitarian domain and bringing it into a domain completely… empty, if you will, empty of everything, empty of everything to a point such that I spoke of a complete anesthesia in order to do it, you understand, which is to say it was necessary… it wasn’t so easy to choose, something which wasn’t pleasing to you and which, you, not pleasing to you, you understand, what I want to say by that… not only what must please you aesthetically but what wouldn’t anymore displease you aesthetically, which is to say the opposite: bad taste instead of good which is the same thing, isn’t it. There isn’t any difference between good and bad taste… two things as little interesting to me as—one or the other, one or the other."
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Yes, for a time in the 1940s, the United States’ Office of Strategic Services (OSS) experimented with cannabis as a truth serum. They noted in their trials that the drug made a subject (in this case a member of the mafia) “loquacious and free in his impartation of information”.
One example of its usage was in the interviewing of Augusto Del Gracio, one of Lucky Luciano’s enforcers. After being given a cigarette spiked with THC concentrate, he talked openly about the gangster’s heroin operations. So successful was the experiment that for the next meeting they upped the THC dosage in the tobacco – but this proved to be too much, and the mobster simply passed out for two hours.
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