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Hiram Mattison, Illustration from A High-School Astronomy, 1859 (via archive)
The red corrugated lake eased up to within fifty feet of the construction and was bordered on the other side by a black line of woods which appeared at both ends of the view to walk across the water and continue along the edge of the fields.
Flannery O’Connor, “A View of the Woods,” 1956
She continued to stare straight ahead but the entire scene in front of her had changed—the tree line was a dark wound in a world that was nothing but sky—and she had the look of a person whose sight has been suddenly restored but who finds the light unbearable.
Flannery O’Connor, “Greenleaf,” 1956
The fact that it’s possible to translate the same lines a hundred different times and all of them are defensible in entirely different ways? That tells you something. I want to be super responsible about my relationship to the Greek text. I want to be saying, after multiple different revisions: This is the best I can get toward the truth.
Emily Wilson, “On Translation,” 2017
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Paul Klee, The Bounds of the Intellect, 1927 (via retroavangarda)
The art of fortification is but the art of setting up or spreading out the lines on which the foundations for the shape and circuit of a place will be built, so that from whatever side the enemy attacks, he should be frontally and laterally in sight and under attack.
Deserts have been shown to resist history and develop along their own lines.
Patrick White, Voss, 1957 (via nouzeilles)
It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread and not the interval between.
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, 1930
There was a line beyond which 'the historian should not go,' namely attempting to describe things 'which belong to our own day and not to history yet.' All one could do ... was to apply 'the principles of historical analysis as far into the problems of the present day as they can safely be applied.'
Do Ho Suh, Immeasurable Architecture at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2016
Erin Chon, Continuousness of Discontinuity, c. 2010
Erin Chon, Discontinuity of Time, c. 2010
Tal Streeter, Red (River Queen) at Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA, 1973 (via naugle)
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Kühnlein Architektur, Wood House, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany, 2015 (via spahn)