laughingsquid:

The Book of the Future

They should sell a set of these with each copy of Fifty Shades of Grey. (via Fold Out Fold Up NEW! : Isabel Greenberg)

Read this, then feel free to join me under my desk, where I will be silently weeping.

thespiralbookcase:

From our SCARY new window display!!! 

oogie boogie

Zooey Deschanel and Jean-Ralphio from Parks and Recreation.

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portraitoftheartistasayoungman:

nabokov maps ulysses

In 1969, Nabokov told an interviewer, “Instead of perpetuating the pretentious nonsense of Homeric, chromatic, and visceral chapter headings, instructors should prepare maps of Dublin with Bloom’s and Stephen’s intertwining itineraries clearly traced.” Nabokov drew just such a map as part of his lecture notes for Ulysses.

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pooryorickentertainment:

Design by Chris Ayers

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   My first step in visualizing the world of “Infinite Jest” was to create the logo for Incandenza’s film company.

Poor Yorick Entertainment, as well as the fictional film and title of the novel, is a reference to Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” in which Hamlet, upon finding the skull of a court jester, remarks “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!”

The allusion to Hamlet is multi-layered. Like the ghost of Hamlet’s father, the ghost of James Incandenza haunts the characters around the Enfield Tennis Academy, both literally (in the form of the wraith), and figuratively.

The image of the skull seems absolutely appropriate for the company’s logo being that it is a universally recognizable symbol for something that is toxic or poisonous.

William Faulkner on writing, money, and Hollywood.

If you know me, you probably know of my deep and abiding love for Nikola Tesla. What you may not know is that stained glass plays a major part in my first novel. Here, two things I am extremely interested in come together in a beautiful stained glass piece from Prague.

I love the concentric circles emanating from the “tower” in the center, and the colored triangles within those circles. And the lines that cut across the circles. And everything about this.