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Traveling in a Straight Line

One discovers how far one can go… …only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. From Norman Mailer’s The Presidential Papers (1963)

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Fearing Their Symbols

Razed the garden, profaned the chalices and the altars… …by horse the Huns broke into the Monastic library and they tore the incomprehensible books and they vituperated them and they burnt them… …fearing their symbols and characters might be concealing … Continue reading

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A House is a Machine for Living in

You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: “This is … Continue reading

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