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unespacepourlesimages: On the Street…East 17th St., New York -...

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:38:10 -0400

On the Street…East 17th St., New York - The Sartorialist

"And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 20:35:51 -0400

“And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

- J. K. Rowling (via theonlymagicleftisart)

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Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:58:43 -0400

"Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses."

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:24:11 -0500

“Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.”

- Thom York, Radiohead (via davidkanigan)

unhistorical: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:23:34 -0500

unhistorical:

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

January 28, 1813: Pride and Prejudice is published.

Jane Austen’s most famous work, a satire of society and manners, was published 200 years ago today. Like all of her works, Pride and Prejudice was published anonymously - Austen was identified on the title page only as “the author of Sense and Sensibility”. Austen completed the original version in 1797. at which point it was entitled First Impressions, but this version was rejected for publication. By 1812 she had apparently revised the manuscript significantly, and it was this version that was eventually published, though under the (equally appropriate) title Pride and Prejudice, so named as to avoid confusion with other novels.

For historical context - Pride and Prejudice was written during the late Georgian era and is typically associated (along with Austen herself) with the Regency era, during which the future king George IV ruled as Prince Regent in his father’s stead. Although this was a time of great political and social change, both at home and abroad, Pride and Prejudice touches sparingly on these issues and instead focuses on the lives of the landed gentry and the not-quite-aristocrats. In addition, the novel cannot be neatly classified into one or the other of the major literary movements of the time; although Austen wrote during the Romantic period, her writing had little in common with the movement. In fact, Charlotte Brontë was a notable critic of the book, citing a lack of passion and emotion as her main complaint:

I had not seen “Pride and Prejudice,” till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.

Perhaps the main difference between the two was that Austen saw the world as a comedy rather than a tragedy (“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”).

Full novel online.

septagonstudios: Chris Thornley

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:45:26 -0500

septagonstudios:

Chris Thornley

at Central Park

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 05:03:00 -0500

at Central Park

sweet nectar

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:14:00 -0500

sweet nectar

room re-do: phase I

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:31:00 -0500

room re-do: phase I

rearranging

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:53:00 -0500

rearranging

rulesofelegance: Mr. James Dean.

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:57:18 -0500

rulesofelegance:

Mr. James Dean.

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Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:55:21 -0500

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Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:54:33 -0500

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Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:53:32 -0500

fisgonaloves: James Dean in his apartment on West 68th Street,...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:53:09 -0500

fisgonaloves:

James Dean in his apartment on West 68th Street, New York City, 1955.

best. episode.

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:59:31 -0500

best. episode.

Slow motion, see me let go.

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:51:33 -0500

Slow motion, see me let go.

"Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn’t know yet that her husband was..."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:25:15 -0500

“Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn’t know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That’s what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into the room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I’ve gone looking for that feeling everywhere.”

- Denis Johnson, “Car Crash While Hitchhiking”

mmm gimme

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:56:30 -0500

mmm gimme

"…therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I..."

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:45:57 -0500

“…therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person’s life on this earth. I don’t mean that we all end up dead, that’s not the great pity. I mean that he couldn’t tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn’t tell him what was real.”

- Denis Johnson, “Car Crash While Hitchhiking”