Rare Trades - bookbinding

Geometrically Coded Magnets Behave Differently

Fog

"I wonder sometimes if fog is just the clouds that could not stand being away from the earth any longer. Just the ones that were too tired to float any more, and wanted to feel soil once again." - Tyler Knott Gregson

Places

It is better to fall in love with places than people. It is better to dedicate poetry to them. 

William T Vollmann

“So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.”

Consumerism

Light bulb documentary

Something to die for

“List of Social Changes that Would Assist the Flourishing of Literary Beauty” by William T. Vollmann. Originally published in his essay, “Something to Die For.”


1. Abolish television, because it has no reverence for time.

2. Abolish the automobile, because it has no reverence for space.

3. Make citizenship contingent upon literacy in every sense. Thus, politicians who do not write every word of their own speeches should be thrown out of office in disgrace. Writers who require editors to make their books “good” should be depublished.

4. Teach reverence for all beauty, including that of the word.