Clipmarks | Aribeth's Books/literature/poetry collection

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: "In the interest of enriching these connections, Turkle pairs each autobiographical essay with a text from philosophy, history, literature, or theory, creating juxtapositions at once playful and profound."

Clip Source: mitpress.mit.edu

Evocative Objects

Things We Think With

For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In Evocative Objects, Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things. These essays reveal objects as emotional and intellectual companions that anchor memory, sustain relationships, and provoke new ideas.

This volume's special contribution is its focus on everyday riches: the simplest of objects--an apple, a datebook, a laptop computer--are shown to bring philosophy down to earth. The poet contends, "No ideas but in things." The notion of evocative objects goes further: objects carry both ideas and passions. In our relations to things, thought and feeling are inseparable.

Emily Dickinson's Friend and Mentor

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:02:25 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Fascinating (to me).

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

Gnomic and subversive, her poems are shots of triple-distilled whiskey that jolt going down, then radiate, leaving us wide-eyed and slightly fuddled.

Emily Dickinson in what is believed to be the only image of her as an adult, in the early 1850s.

Dickinson more demurely described each of her poems as a "letter to the World,"

Among the recipients of her poems -- and of hundreds of letters -- was Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Massachusetts blueblood with a mid-19th-century reputation as a free-thinker and writer.

As reclusive as Dickinson's life was, his was cinematic. Father, husband, minister, naturalist, novelist, poet, politician, teacher -- he was these and more. Impatient with armchair reformers, he ran guns to besieged antislavery Free Soilers in antebellum Kansas, a bowie knife stashed in his boot.

• Read an excerpt from 'White Heat'

Dickinson's verse: "poetry torn up by the roots" that "takes one's breath away."

Tags: emily dickinson

Rubaiyat (quatrains) of Omar Khayyam, the astronomer-poet of Persia (1048-1122)

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:09:17 GMT

clipped by: Johanna_G
clipper's remarks: Medieval Sourcebook: Omar Khayyam: The Rubaiyat, c. 1120, trans. E. H. Whinfield
Irania.eu Omar Khayyam Robaiyat
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Astronomer-Poet of Persia (First edition)
Biography
Philosophy of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyám - Wikipedia EN

Clip Source: johammonia2.blogspot.com

Some look for truth in creeds, and forms, and rules;
Some grope for doubts or dogmas in the schools;
But from behind the veil a voice proclaims,
"Your road lies neither here nor there, O fools."

Young wooer, charm all hearts with lover's art,
Glad winner, lead thy paragon apart!
A hundred Kaabas equal not one heart,
Seek not the Kaaba, rather seek a heart!

Better to make one soul rejoice with glee,
Than plant a desert with a colony;
Rather one freeman bind with chains of love,
Than set a thousand prisoned captives free!

They who by genius, and by power of brain,
The rank of man's enlighteners attain,
Not even they emerge from this dark night,
But tell their dreams, and fall asleep again.

Although the creeds number some seventy-three,
I hold with none but that of loving Thee;
What matter faith, unfaith, obedience, sin?
Thou'rt all we need, the rest is vanity.

Tags: omar khayyam, rubaiyat, quatrains, poems, persia, literature, religion, philosophy, middle ages

A Quote (by deeply religious nonbeliever)

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:27:42 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: beware it`s not just a flower !!

it`s the most beautiful rose i ever saw ... -)

Clip Source: www.poetry-archive.com

TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME

by: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

ED Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate,

I find under the boughs of love and hate,

In all poor foolish things that live a day,

Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

Come near, come near, come near -- Ah, leave me still

A little space for the rose-breath to fill!

And learn to chaunt a tongue men do not know

Come near; I would, before my time to go,

Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:

Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

Clip Source: s197.photobucket.com

Tags: quotes, images, yeats

The Alexandrian Library : Digital Resources

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:12:44 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: Very cool site, take a look:

http://www.bibalex.org/Libraries/Presentation/Static/12600.aspx?d=0

Clip Source: www.bibalex.org

As a library of the 21 st Century, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), along with its affiliated academic and cultural centers, is committed to digitization as a means of preserving, managing, and disseminating information and knowledge. The BA sets out to share them with a worldwide audience via the internet, thus promoting greater understanding and tolerance between cultures. To achieve this goal, the BA has formed partnerships with various cultural, academic, governmental, and corporate organizations for the creation of many significant and compelling digital projects. These projects cover a wide array of cultural and educational themes.

Tags: egypt, library, alexandrian, restored

"Fear of Flying" unzipped

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:51:07 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: With summer's approach maybe time to get Erica off the shelf again?

Clip Source: chronicle.com

"Fear of Flying: Can a Feminist Classic Be an American Classic?"

In an interview in Playboy, Jong commented that "men and women do face similar problems, like those Isadora faced: the difficulty of separating oneself from one's family, of achieving a sense of adulthood; the dilemma of wanting to be sexually free and yet grounded in a safe, secure relationship."

Fear of Flying is also a picaresque novel that comments on the male tradition of adventure, sexual conquest, and life-for-art's-sake. Named for the modern dancer Isadora Duncan and for Zelda Fitzgerald, the novelist wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Isadora Zelda Wing is told in childhood by her mother, a frustrated artist, that she must choose between creativity or maternity.

With a Laingian therapist named Adrian Goodlove, Isadora sets off on a passionate odyssey around Europe

Adrian dumps her; but Isadora is determined: "Whatever happened, I knew I would survive it. I knew, above all, that I'd go on working."

Tags: jong, fear of flying

The great magic in reading the books...

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:41:46 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: You should read the whole article...very nice

Clip Source: www.bookstove.com

The silky touch of the new book covers, the amazing trials and turbulences of the lives of the people within the colorful covers, the sheer volume of the books, the photos and the pictures, the life-long journey of the characters! There is magic in reading the books!

The spring gives you a different sort of an experience altogether! The fusion of the colors and fragrance of the grass, flowers and leaves, the dipping orange sun of the late evening, the dazzling night sky filled-in with spectacular vision of stars, people milling around late into the night…The spring demands something more than a cup of coffee to accompany the reading of any book! A light book, peppered with some hot snacks would make a wonderful accompanying combination for reading in the spring!

The sharp rays of the Sun dazzle every little object it touches on! The raising mercury does not deter a serious reader from the absorption of his book!

he book-lovers belong to a wonderful world of their own!

Tags: magic, reading, books, lalitha raman.

Reasons to Read Memoirs

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:12:11 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

Clip Source: memorywritersnetwork.com

Reason # 1: Pleasure
Reading a memoir lets me lose myself while I enter someone else’s world

Reason # 2: Wisdom
By reading memoirs, I learn how the good, the bad, and the boring all accumulate into the journey of life.

remind me of my grandmother’s sayings, “Life goes on” and “This too shall pass.

Reason # 3: Expand my circle of empathy

Now I no longer need to guess how they feel. They can tell me themselves. I have been with people as they visit relatives in an African village, have postpartum depression, escape the rough streets of New Jersey, grow up poor in Ireland, grow up with a world famous father, and on and on

Reason # 4: Learn about the world

Reason # 5: Feel inspired by writers who keep growing

writers keep growing, not just within their story, but also through the process of writing about their lives. Every memoir writer develops skills, and organizes material.

Reason # 6: I learn about stories from the inside out

Reason # 7: I learn the bold art of self discovery

Tags: reading, memoir

Virtual books shelf

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:54:31 GMT

clipped by: Fast T friend
clipper's remarks: Its new to me, haven't checked it out yet, seems interesting though.

Clip Source: www.shelfari.com

Shelfari makes it easy to see what your friends are reading, what others with similar tastes have enjoyed, and even get and give book recommendations.

With Shelfari you can easily connect with new and old friends to talk about the books you are passionate about. Join a group devoted to your favorite author or bring your book club online.

Shelfari empowers you to show off the books you are passionate about. Build your shelf in Shelfari and then embed your shelf in your blog, website, or social networking site of choice.

Tags: books, reading, virtual book shelf

Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:28:55 GMT

clipped by: mickfinn
clipper's remarks: Fascinating artworks

Clip Source: centripetalnotion.com

Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures.

Tags: art

World's Largest Literary Prize for Fiction: Impac

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:26:42 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: Works are nominated by participating libraries and can be written in any language provided it has also been published in English. Some 161 libraries in 121 cities nominated works. This year's winner will be named on June 12th.

Clip Source: www.ireland.com

Impac award shortlist announced

The shortlist for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award

which was initiated in 1994, is managed by Dublin City Libraries and is the world's largest literary prize for a single work of fiction

Irish author Patrick McCabe’s Winterwood is on the eight-strong shortlist for the €100,000 prize

The others are De Niro’s Game by Rawi Hage;

The Speed of Light by Javier Cercas

Dreams of Speaking by Gail Jones

Andrei Makine’s The Woman Who Waited;

The Attack by Yasmina Khadra

Let It Be Morning by Sayed Kashua.

Last year’s winner was Norwegian author Per Petterson for Out Stealing Horses.

Colm Tóibín became the first Irish winner of the prize in 2006 with The Master .

Irish nominees on the longlist were:

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

The Secret Life of E.Robert Pendleton by Michael Collins

This Man and Me by Alison Jameson

Tenderwire by Claire Kilroy

Zoli by Colum McCann

Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road , which won this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Mr Pip

Tags: irish, award

Death of a Dream - The Future is Life

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:34:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.lorinix.net

Tags: art, library, books, future, old

The Garden of Forking Paths (part 2)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:47:25 GMT

clipped by: syncopath

Clip Source: etcetera.stumbleupon.com

A writer -- and, I believe, generally all persons -- must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

Conversations with Borges

1981-1983

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

Jorge Luis Borges "The Immortal" (1949)

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.

Jorge Luis Borges "Note on Walt Whitman"

"Borges 2.0: From Text to Virtual Worlds" by Perla Sassón-Henry

The Garden of Forking Paths (part1)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:40:00 GMT

clipped by: syncopath
clipper's remarks: "Let heaven exist, though my own place may be in hell."
Jorge Luis Borges "The Library of Babel" (1941)

Clip Source: etcetera.stumbleupon.com

A Conversation with Jorge Luis Borges

labyrinth: it's the most evident symbol of perplexity. I feel completely lost, and the labyrinth is an obvious symbol of being lost. Now, the mirror is not so easy. It's the idea of "I," for example, what one has been, and later one will be a third person, it's an aspect of the mirror.

Ts'ui Pe must have said once: I am withdrawing to write a book. And another time: I am withdrawing to construct a labyrinth. Every one imagined two works; to no one did it occur that the book and the maze were one and the same thing.

Jorge Luis Borges "The Garden of Forking Paths" (1942)

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 secret blasphemies against their God, who was an iron scimitar...

Jorge Luis Borges "The Theologians"

I cannot think it unlikely that there is such a total book on some shelf in the universe.