Alphabetarion # Movement | Benjamin Franklin, 1705-90
Natalia Goncharova, Frost, 1910-11 “Never confuse movement with action.” Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs, 1771-90 Also:Alphabetarion # Neither | Benjamin Franklin, 1771-90Maelzel’s...
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On [:] Want | F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920
Happy New year postcard, 1913 “I’m not sure what I’ll do, but — well, I want to go places and...
The Me I Never Knew | A song by Scott Walker, 1973
Scott Walker, Any Day Now lp, 1973, Japan cover The me I never knewBegin to stir sometime this morningThe me...
Ode to My Socks | A poem by Pablo Neruda, 1904-73
Ancient Egyptian Socks, c 250-420 AD Maru Mori brought mea pairof sockswhich she knitted herselfwith her sheepherder’s hands,two socks as...
Nengajo | Traditional Japanese New Year’s greeting cards, 1880s-1970s
Nengajo card, 1925 / Saitô Shôshû, Manzai for New Year's Day, 1904 / New Year's Card: Twelve Months Takehisa Yumeji...
On [:] Asylum | Carl Solomon, 1948
Vincent van Gogh, Corridor in the Asylum, 1889 Carl Solomon: “Who are you?”Allen Ginsberg: “I’m Myshkin.”Carl Solomon: “I’m Kirilov.” Fall,...
Persons [ ] Your fragility is also your strength | Pina Bausch, 1940 – 2009
Pina Bausch, Folkwang School, 1960s “I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I...
Alphabetarion # Measure | Michael J. Sandel, 2020
Zilvinas Landzbergas, Ape.3, 2007, cardboard three-wheeler “Being good at making money measures neitherour merit nor the value of our contribution.”...
Days [ ) Then | Dylan Thomas, 1952
anon, snowman “It snowed last year too: I made a snowmanand my brother knocked it down and I knockedmy brother...
On [:] Whisper | Susan Cooper, 1973
Lars Swane, Christmas Tree, 1986 “There was something about Christmas Eve, they both felt, that demanded company; one needed somebody...