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The Genius Of The Crowd | A poem by Charles Bukowski, 1966

Emilio Pettoruti, The blue cup, 1939 . there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to...

Photographers [Oo] Flowers | Photos by Laure Albin Guillot, 1920s-1940s

Laure Albin Guillot, Fleurs, 1930 ...

Alphabetarion # Privacy | Jonathan Franzen, 2001

Kazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition, 1915-16 . “Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.” Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections,...

Le Tumulte Noir (The Black Craze) | Paul Colin’s Jazz Age Portfolio, 1925-27

Paul Colin, 1927 Paul Colin and Le Tumulte Noir The jazz age had taken hold in Paris...

The fifties | Photos by Lutz Dille, 1922-2008

Lutz Dille, Three in a Window, 1959 Lutz Dille, Paris, 1951 Lutz Dille, Toronto, 1957 Lutz Dille, Toronto, 1959 Lutz...

Persons [ ] The Impossible | Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013

Nelson Mandela, 1953 . “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The...

Alphabetarion # Happy | Dale Carnegie, 1936

Ernst Koslitsch, Yellow universe . “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what...

Playing with Prez was something | Miles Davis on Lester Young, 1990

Lester Young & Miles Davis, 1950s photo: Burt Goldblatt . And then I met “The President,” Lester Young, when he...

Reality is the Theory; Art is the Practice | Word Art by Lawrence Weiner, 1942-2021

Lawrence Weiner, Untitled, 1966 . "Reality is the theory; art is the practice." Lawrence Weiner Lawrence Weiner, Untitled, 1992 ...

Alphabetarion # Drinking | George Orwell, 1937

Kiyoshi Asai, Cafe Coupole, Paris, 1963 . “According to Chesterton, tea-drinking’ is ‘pagan’, while beer-drinking is ‘Christian’, and coffee is...