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piquant Nixon
nixontapes.org: “Between February 1971 and July 1973, President Richard Nixon secretly recorded 3,700 hours of his phone calls and meetings across the executive offices. Currently, approximately 2,217 hours of these tapes have been declassified, released, and made available to the … Continue reading
Emma Darwin’s diaries
“These small pocket diaries of Emma Wedgwood Darwin (1808-1896), the wife of Charles Darwin, are reproduced with the kind permission of their owner Richard Darwin Keynes. The images are scanned from the microfilms prepared by the Cambridge University Library where … Continue reading
New York City
New York Public Library (under construction), down the street from Grand Central: The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree: Manhattan was crowded and claustrophobic. But to leave town I rode the 7 into Queens and got to walk the mile and a … Continue reading
variations on a theme: life
“In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, and his fame doubtful. … Continue reading
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Tagged diderot, douglas adams, john irving, joseph campbell, library, marcus aurelius, mary shelley, ralph ellison, shakespeare, the book of job, the matrix, the simpsons, vonnegut, woolf
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fante tour
I’m sure Esotouric’s John Fante-based tour of L.A. is fantastic, but since no one I know has $58 to set aside for such a tour, a few months ago some friends and I decided to make our own Fante tour. … Continue reading
Posted in history/memory, literature, los angeles
Tagged angel's flight, california, downtown los angeles, fante, food, library, maps, public transit
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