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"Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find."Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear (via diehasbeencast)
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Books and secret rooms: ah, if I had grown in a place like this!
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Metaphorical Kind for Charles Dickens by rachel walsh:
Interweb project: “Explain something modern/internet based to someone who lived and died before 1900”. I made this to explain Amazon’s Kindle to Charles Dickens. “I made the book start to finish over five days, and it took about 35 hours to make I reckon. It was pretty painstaking cutting out all the gaps in the book itself, and making the books to go inside. They’re all bound like actual books, so as I waited for them to glue and dry I would design the covers for them. All the covers are copies of real book covers. They include many of Dickens’s novels, his favorite childhood books, and some of my own.”
Trying to explain new-fangled techmanological jobbies in more archaic terms is an intriguing concept. Just think: how would you explain cars to a time-displaced historical figure? Self-propelled horseless carriages. Credit cards: tiny banking storage journal. The Internet: a series of tubes used to look at material the Vatican deems sinful. But Rachel nailed the Kindle here: it’s kind of like a book with a bunch of little books in it.
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“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind.
Books are humanity in print.”
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About me
Name: Kat
Occupation: Student, photographer, intern
Appreciates:
Environmentalism
Photography
Conservation
Sustainability
Renewable Energy
Dance
Democracy
Bats
Madison, WI
Environmental Art
Red Pandas
Libraries
Baby Animals
Wisconsin Badger Football
Local Indie Bookstores
Recycling
Broccoli
Weddings
Red velvet cake
Catholicism
Throw Pillows
Social Networking
Foursquare
I Blog: Anything from the list above, but mainly a smattering of cute animals, environmental stuff, politics, photography, weddings, interior design, cupcakes, books, and whatever else I feel like depending on current events and the availability of new red panda photos.
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