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how recorded music is like a dictionary
In 1746 Samuel Johnson was commissioned to create a dictionary of the English language. “Before Johnson, no standard dictionary of the English language existed. The lack had troubled speakers of English for some time, both because Italian and French academics … Continue reading
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Tagged samuel johnson, speculation
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cityscope: a compilation of obsessions
mini-book/zine i made for my friends, december 2006 ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ****** ******
Posted in art/architecture, history/memory, language, literature, los angeles, movies/photography, music, philosophy/religion
Tagged albert speer, california, chatham, david markson, debord, delany, dictionary, didion, eliot, eternal return, fante, flowers, gaiman, hollywood, iggy pop, kundera, library, nathanael west, o'keeffe, palimpsest, park, plato, public transit, rilke, robert frost, ruins, shelley, watergate, west los angeles, woodward, woolf, yogi berra
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