Posts Tagged ‘random quotation’
Not-Actually-So-Random Quotations
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 13, 2011
We often debase this point to the relatively unimportant matter of not wanting to say what someone else has already said, as if no truth should ever be said more than once. Perhaps from the influence of the hard sciences, where new discoveries seldom require much repeating before they begin to do their work in [...]
Remember
Posted by: dkoupf on: May 2, 2011
“Writing is hard and uses up a lot of energy. I think it is nearly always hard, though it is possible to forget in between times how hard it is. When a chapter has been worked and reworked into a finished piece, it is easy to lose sight of how it came to be that [...]
Random (Long) Quotation
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 1, 2010
“If the steam-boat and the railway have thus abridged space and time, and made a large addition to the available length of human existence, why may not our intellectual journey be also accelerated, — our knowledge more cheaply and quickly acquired, — its records rendered more accessible and portable, its cultivators increased in number, — [...]
Random Quotation
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 10, 2009
“To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.” From: Perec, Georges. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces. Ed. and trans. John Sturrock. New York: Penguin [...]
Random (Long) Quotation
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 9, 2009
“There are few events which don’t leave a written trace at least. At one time or another, almost everything passes through a sheet of paper, the page of a notebook, or of a diary, or some other chance support (a Métro ticket, the margin of a newspaper, a cigarette packet, the back of an envelope [...]
Random Quotation
Posted by: dkoupf on: June 23, 2009
Laurence Sterne on the circulation of a scrap (Yorick’s sermon): “Ill-fated sermon! Thou wast lost, after this recovery of thee, a second time, dropp’d thro’ an unsuspected fissure in thy master’s pocket, down into a treacherous and a tatter’d lining, — trod deep into the dirt by the left hind foot of his Rosinante, inhumanly [...]
Random Quotation
Posted by: dkoupf on: June 3, 2009
“[T]here’s something great about the physicality of the Britannica. It’s not disembodied information, not a bunch of encoded 1s and 0s on a microchip the size of an Indian mung bean. It’s a big old-timey book, a massive object that can squash bugs and light fires and make thuds. I know I sound like a [...]
The Evolution of the Page
Posted by: dkoupf on: March 21, 2009
“Messages written on clay tablets, which were almost indestructible, were replaced by ink on paper. Ink, in its turn, was replaced by bits of computer memory, making characters on an eletronic screen. Now, with HTML, which allows parts of a single page to be located on different computers, the page becomes even more fluid and [...]
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