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✖ Via The New York Times: “The Haunted Household” by Christoph Niemann, May 25, 2010

This is Niemann’s latest instalment published on his New York Times’ blog Abstract City :

“Maintaining a home is an uphill battle. For quite some time Iʼve suspected that little goblins are sabotaging my efforts. We try to keep our place tidy. I broom the floor, I sit back, relax and ponder my good work, yet … a few seconds later … ta-dah! One of those little beasts jumps out to mock me.” (more)

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✖ Via Luke’s Beard photostream on Flickr: a lyric a day no 0088 “We Are Love Home Safe Lost” (lyric from “Foreword” by Moving Montain”

“This is my everyday project for 2010. Taking one lyric from a song every day and creating art or taking a photo inspired from that lyric.”

Luke Beard is a UK based graphic and web designer. Follow his “a lyric a day” project on Tumblr. Check his official website.

I first discovered Luke Beard’s work via Troubled By Insects

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Broadbent: … I find the world quite good enough for me - rather a jolly place, in fact.
Keegan (looking at him with quiet wonder): You are satisfied?
Broadbent: As a reasonable man, yes. I see no evils in the world - except of course, natural evils - that cannot be remedied by freedom, self-government and English institutions. I think so, not because I am an Englishman, but as a matter of common sense.
Keegan: You feel at home in the world then?
Broadbent: Of course, Don’t you?
Keegan (from the very depths of his nature): No.

✖ Via John Bull’s Other Island by Bernard Shaw, 1904, Act IV §ii.

This is the epigraph for Colin Wilson’s 1956 book The Oustider [Amazon]. I first learn about Wilsom’s book via Another Nickel In The Machine

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✖ Via LIFE - Hosted by Google

“Joan Aldrin (C) applauding her husband, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, as she watches TV coverage of splashdown at end of mission.” Houston, TX, US. Photo by Vernon Merritt III, July 24, 1969.

Splashdown time was 12:50:35 p.m. EDT.

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