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chronicling an eclectic labyrinth of architectural contemplation based in new york city

I remember that winter because it had brought the heaviest snow I had ever seen. Snow had fallen steadily all night long and in the morning I woke in a room filled with light and silence, the whole world seemed to be held in a dream-like stillness. It was a magical day... and it was on that day I made the Snowman.

Raymond Briggs, The Snowman, 1978

#raymond briggs #the snowman #quote #lit #literature #story #winter #snow #night #morning #room #white #silence #light #world #dream #magic #day #play #childhood #memory

Considerations for architecture in the context of history include the regulation and management of power and identity; what prevails and what does not; and how to recognize the significance of untold narratives.

Sharon Johnston + Mark Lee of Johnston Marklee in Nicholas Korody, “The Amnesias of Make New History,” 2017

#sharon johnston #mark lee #johnston marklee #nicholas korody #history #context #regulation #management #power #identity #prevail #significance #narrative #untold #story #time #amnesia #make new history

Celebrated works of architecture were built through displacement. If these histories are forgotten or obscured, it is in part due to the willful production of certain narratives over others. History is as much about forgetting as it is about remembering, and we—that is to say, the architectural community—tend to recall stories of design heroism over horror.

Nicholas Korody, “The Amnesias of Make New History,” 2017

#nicholas korody #quote #architecture #amnesia #history #design #displacement #forgotten #obscure #narrative #production #forgetting #memory #community #heroism #horror #story #legacy #city

Hello ThePeoples, Are ThePeoples enjoying seven minutes of hate at Russian hackers and Russian security company? Is after October 1st, new moneys is being in US government budgets for making information warfares payments. Is many stories of NSA + lost data. Is all beings true? Is NSA chasing shadowses? Is theequationgroup still not knowing hows thems getting fucked? Is US government trying out storieses to be seeing responses? TheShadowBrokers be telling ThePeoples year ago how theshadowbrokers is getting data. ThePeoples is no believing. ThePeoples is got jokes. ThePeoples is making shits up. So TheShadowBrokers then saying fucks it, theshadowbrokers can be doings that too. TheShadowBrokers is thinkings The Peoples is missings most important part of storieses. ... Russian security peoples is being really really, almost likes, nearly sames as Russian hackers. Is like werewolves. Russian security peoples is becoming Russian hackeres at nights, but only full moons.

The Shadow Brokers, “October Price Adjustment,” 2017

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Flannery O’Connor, “On Writing,” c. 1960

#flannery o'connor #quote #story #grotesque #writing #action #grace #character #willing #support #people #hard #brutal #hope #hopeless #god #religion #lit #literature

If you’re going to admit that stories matter, then it matters how we tell them, and that exists on the level of microscopic word choice, as well as on the level of which story are you going to pick to start off with, and then, what exactly is that story? The whole question of ‘What is that story?’ is going to depend on the language, the words that you use.

Emily Wilson, “On Narrative,” 2017

#emily wilson #quote #lit #literature #narrative #story #history #level #microscopic #word #choice #diction #language #syntax #structure #linguistics #matter #importance #significance

Atlanta specializes in the ND, the nondescript. Middle America, suburbia, any story that’s not anchored to a specific geographical locale—Atlanta does that extremely well.

Jason Underwood in Hannah Palmer, "Film in Atlanta’s Rotten Core,” 2017

#jason underwood #hannah palmer #atlanta #core #nondescript #generic #warhouse project #suburbia #story #local #locale #geography #narrative #quote

What the modern poet should write is not epic but a deductum carmen, a poem that has been drawn out the way a thread has been drawn out in spinning, so that it becomes a fine strand out of the original glob of raw wool.

Denis Feeney, “Introduction” to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, 8 / 2004 CE

#denis feeney #introduction #ovid #metamorphoses #quote #modern #poet #write #carmen #deductum carmen #poem #poetry #spinning #glob #wool #story #time #fable #strand #clarity #thread

Text to me is the manipulation of words to produce something other than a narrative. I want to stop any narrative.

Peter Eisenman, “On Architecture,” 2016

#text #manipulation #production #peter eisenman #narrative #story #quote #architecture #design

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

Barry Unsworth, “On Secrets,” c. 2000

#barry unsworth #quote #secret #fiction #start #feeling #unique #perception #pressure #story #narrative

Gozzi believed that there were only thirty-six tragic situations; Schiller thought there must be more, cut he was unable to find even so many as Gozzi.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Conversations with Eckermann, 1836-48

#johann wolfgang von goethe #goethe #gozzi #schiller #eckermann #johann peter eckermann #tragic #situation #narrative #plot #story #tale #count #typology #philosophy #literature #lit #quote

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Matteo Ghidoni, High-Rise Autopsies: HR06 = First Sequence of Events (Alliances, Fights, Blackouts), 2007 (via archidose)

#matteo ghidoni #drawing #art #architecture #autopsy #sequence #event #narrative #story #diagram #alliance #fight #blackout #jumpcut #high-rise #skyscraper #tower #favorite

Plot is built of significant events in a given story – significant because they have important consequences. Taking a shower isn't necessarily plot... Let's call them incidents ... Plot is the things characters do, feel, think or say, that make a difference to what comes afterward.

Ansen Dibell, Plot: Elements of Fiction Writing, 1999

#ansen dibell #plot #element #fiction #writing #significance #event #story #narrative #necessary #incident #character #feel #think #say #difference #impact

Richard Westall, Sword of Damocles, 1812

#richard westfall #sword of damocles #sword #damocles #myth #mythology #history #story #danger #rule #peril #black swan #nassim taleb

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I murder the text, literally cut it into pieces, castrating verbs, suffocating adjectives, murdering nouns, throwing articles, prepositions conjunctions overboard, jettisoning adverbs; I separate subject from verb, verb from object—create semantic mayhem, until my hands bloodied, from so much killing and cutting, reach into the stinking, eviscerated innards, and like some seer, sangoma, or prophet who, having sacrificed an animal for signs and portents of a new life, or simply life, reads the untold story that tells itself by not telling.

M. NourbeSe Philip, Afterword for Zong!, c. 2010 (via batarde)

In my head I'm always living in the past, always redesigning the story, even if I'm imagining something that doesn't exist.

Andreas Angelidakis, “On Time and Narrative,” c. 2015

#andreas angelidakis #time #narrative #story #space #existence #past #life #creative past #creative destruction #head #concept #quote

Malcolm Gladwell, The Unheard Story of David and Goliath, 2013

#malcolm gladwell #story #narrative #bible #gigantism #giant #david and goliath #david #religion #quote #video #lecture #lit #literature

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