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the finger on the text

(p. 189 of Jules Verne’s The Green Ray, trans. M. de Hautville, in Google’s edition.)

pamela moore in the new york times

(“In and Out of Books,” excerpted, 19 August 1956.)

(“Books and Authors,” excerpted, 27 August 1956)

(Review of Chocolates for Breakfast, 16 September 1956.)

(“A Literary Letter from Paris,” excerpted, 4 November 1956.)

(“Of Local Origin,” excerpted, 7 May 1960.)

(Letter to the editor about Witold Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke, 17 September 1961.)

ads for pamela moore

(From the New Yorker, 10 November 1956, p. 220; the same ad had also appeared in the issue of 27 October 1956.)

(From the New Yorker, 2 February 1963, p. 120; the same ad also appears on 9 February and 16 February of that year.)

(A Rinehart ad on p. 96 of the October 1956 issue of Harper’s.)

duchamp book design

Marcel Duchamp’s cover for Georges Hugnet’s La septième face du dé, Editions Jeanne Bucher, 1936. Somebody still needs to compile a book of Duchamp’s book designs. (From Arcana Books via A Journey Round My Skull.)

on the silver globe








































(Stills from Andrzej Żuławski ’s On the Silver Globe, almost all from the immense selection here.)

detail

(Giovanni di Marco, called Giovanni dal Ponte, Madonna and Child enthroned between Saints Lawrence and Anastasia (detail), private collection; on show at Moretti’s “Dalla tradizione gotica al primo Rinascimento”.)

at the met

(Couple with Anthropomorphic Deity; Mexico; Maya; 7th–9th century; ceramic. Lent by a private collection, 2008. L.2008.41.8)

locus solus at the theatre antoine

(Illustration from Le Théâtre et Comoedia illustrée of the original theatrical production of Raymond Roussel’s Locus Solus in 1923, from Livrenblog by way of A Journey Round My Skull.)

george quasha’s definitional videos

poetry is [vol. I] from George Quasha on Vimeo.

music is [Vol. I] from George Quasha on Vimeo.

art is [Vol. I] from George Quasha on Vimeo.

art is [Vol. II] from George Quasha on Vimeo.

(via Ron Silliman.)

la statue de la liberté

(Jindřich Štyrský, La Statue de la liberté, collage, 1934. On view now at the Ubu Gallery’s “Metamorphosis Victorianus: Modern Collage, Victorian Engravings & Nostalgia”.)