I believe what this man says.
I don't do anything halfway.
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Writing, reading, drawing. Ghosts, elves, golems, fetches, fairies, demi-gods. Communities, subcultures, inherited and created identities. Cute, unchallenging games for the DS. Melville Dewey the Puppy and Benjamin Franklin the Cat. Comic books/graphic novels. Fashion. Movie/pop stars and pop culture. Bright colors. Cocktails. Shlubbing around with P.W. Missing my far flung family.
"As the eldest of five sons, Warburg had been expected to take over direction of his family's venerable and very prosperous bank. By age thirteen, however, it was all too clear to him that he wasn't cut out for it. Wasting no time, he made an arrangement with his equally decisive brother Max, one year his junior, whereby he would cede all rights of primogeniture in return for Max's agreement to buy him any book he wanted for the entirety of his life. Surprisingly enough, the adolescent agreement proved binding.
While Max was hard at work at the family bank, Aby was equally occupied amassing one of the strangest libraries in the world. Dedicated to the broad field of what the German call Kulturwissenschaft, the humanities and social sciences, the library's most striking feature was its principle of organization. Works were not classified by subject, author, title, or even date of acquisition, but instead by what Warburg called "the law of the good neighbor." Though grouped under such general rubrics as Anthropology or Art History, both the various sections and the books within them were arranged as a function of their ability to engage with the books on either side of them. A line of speculation opened in one volume was attested to or attacked, continued or contradicted, refined or refuted in its neighbor. The constantly changing collection became a labyrinth where Warburg was Daedalus, Ariadne, and Minotaur all at once. Upon first visiting the library in the 1920s, the German philosopher Ernst Cassirer, one of the most erudite men of the day, declared that he saw only two options: to leave immediately or stay for ten years. A systematic man, Cassirer did the one, and then returned to do the other."
from The Believer
Emily Haines. Dave Bazaan. Other stuff.
Hiyao Miyazaki. Documentaries. Serenity. A and E version of Pride and Prejudice. Bonnie and Clyde.
This American Life. Firefly. OMG Heroes!
I.N.P.O.-Dave Eggers, C.S. Lewis, Jane Austen, David Foster Wallace, Sarah Vowell, Daniel Handler, Orson Scott Card, Louisa May Alcott, Michael Chabon, Lynda Barry. Junot Diaz. (He kissed me on the cheek!) Joe Sacco. Allison Bechedal. Miranda July. George Saunders. Brian K. Vaugn. Susanna Clarke. Kelly Link. Angie Debo.
Good Reads.com
My grandfather. Batman. Angie Debo.