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Saturday, March 31, 2012

El ingenioso hidalgo

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I have to confess to my shame that until now I have never read Don Quixote in its entirety, or even close to its entirety, not in Spanish a...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

The Ghost in the Euclid Arcade

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It will be dawn soon. The first light of morning will drift down through the lattice of glass and steel above my head, and as it does the sh...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Secrets

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This postcard of the Connecticut River at Greenfield, Massachusetts was postmarked in nearby Turners Falls on January 29, 1909 and sent to a...
Thursday, March 01, 2012

Untitled (Woman with dog)

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We seem to have an innate need to tell stories, even when the raw material is lacking. I suppose that it's part of our way of making sen...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Hopscotch animations

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Here are four brief animations based on Julio Cortazar's Rayuela (Hopscotch) . I can't really follow the Portuguese translation but ...
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Friday, February 03, 2012

Orpheus — The Lowdown (Blegvad & Partridge)

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Peter Blegvad and Andy Partridge reportedly worked on this recording project off and on for twelve years, which works out to about two minut...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Cortázar: Cartas (new edition)

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A post by Gustavo Ribeiro at Blog Morellianas brings news of a forthcoming, vastly expanded edition of Julio Cortázar's letters, replac...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

The Rotograph Project

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I have spun off a separate blog, The Rotograph Project , to serve as a virtual gallery for the display and interpretation of the American vi...
Friday, January 13, 2012

The truth

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This photographic postcard, most likely created between 1907-1914, depicts a family group against the backdrop of a snowy field. The identit...
Saturday, January 07, 2012

Money home

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These receipts from The Williams & Guion steamship company were made out to a young Irish immigrant named Margaret Nagle for sums she se...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

The Lost Tower

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This postcard of the Brooklyn Bridge and the adjacent waterfront, published by the Rotograph Co., was postmarked in 1905. Offering a view of...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

The Bleaching Stream (Peter Blegvad)

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The modest-looking covers of this 80-page paperback conceal a number of curiosities and mysteries within and without, starting with the iden...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

Out with the Old (2011)

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The third annual retrospective of the year's postings at this address. Swedish Summer Flying slowly Pleasures of the Macabre Permutation...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

The stain

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"The little tintypes, and their more elegant cousins the ambrotypes and daguerrotypes, provide the oldest direct connection to the visu...
Friday, November 25, 2011

The Akin Hall Library (c.1907)

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This Rotograph postcard of what is now known as the Akin Free Library, located in Pawling, New York, was probably taken during the final sta...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

Till Minne

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I came across this little group of European cartes de visite in a box in an antique shop for a nominal price and bought the lot of them. Som...
Friday, November 04, 2011

The woman by the stream

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A number of years ago I was invited to deliver a lecture at a summer conference on ethnobotany at the University of Tokyo. It was not my fir...
Friday, October 21, 2011

Still Playin'

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In the first quarter of the 20th century it gradually dawned on a generation of entrepreneurs and budding media moguls that that there was m...
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