“If there is a creator, he surely made this world too large. This is inconvenient for us small, fearful humans. For all the world’s vastness, we can’t measure the distance between ourselves. There are 6 billion of us, yet still, everyone is alone. That is why we are all frantically searching for that one person we need no distance from.”“First, we are born in the same galaxy. Born of the same species. Our lifetimes overlap. The meetings between humans are so unlikely as to be miraculous. To laugh, to cry, and to fall in love… Everyone is made up of a collection of 1% chances. Thus, I’m dazzled by the fact that there are so many miracles in this world.”
“The whale leaps. As high as he can imagine. Piercing the water from peak to peak. Is a yearning for the sky reflected in his eyes? What if this high point wasn’t merely the sky, but something far higher? If he knew of the infinite glitter of the stars, would his dreams soar even higher? Even if one doesn’t know why, to live is to constantly reach out. Not to a nervous restlessness, but to a constant motion of the heart.”
“I want to hear who you are, not what you have.”
I usually hate f. Scott Fitzgerald but this isn’t half bad
No clue what this is from or the context… But it seemed like something that belonged on this blog
From our Artists’ Book Collection, Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer (N7433.4 .F65 T74 2011 Cage) which consists of die-cut pages designed by Sara De Bondt studio.
“With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of codes explores previously uncharted literary territory. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first–as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. Tree of codes is the story of an enormous last day of life–as one character’s life is chased to extinction, Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorienting imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person’s last day everyone’s story. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his favorite book, The street of crocodiles, by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, and used it as a canvas, cutting into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story told in the author’s’ own acclaimed voice.” -publisher’s description.
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Yo, this is really interesting. I might take a trip up to Baltimore to see this work for myself. Imagine the possibilities!
