cold green tea press / notebook / flickrTumblr (3.0; @coldgreentea)http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/1ff1934bae64a719044777ab564ce009/tumblr_mmy8up7Sf21qz4f5wo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/05/17/necessary-words-and-other-news/">The Paris Review</a>: In Japanese,<a class="fancybox" href="http://i.imgur.com/kRgaXcQ.jpg" target="_blank"> <em>tsundoku</em> means</a> “the act of buying books and not reading them, leaving them to pile up.”</p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/50656408406http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/50656408406Fri, 17 May 2013 08:40:01 -0700Japanese literaturetsundokuI had hardly begun to readI asked how can you ever be surethat what you write is reallyany good at...http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/50508866420http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/50508866420Wed, 15 May 2013 11:23:18 -0700w.s. merwin<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/173bc9b9bfbbb56a48acf3728bf0f60a/tumblr_mmo0nl1mbW1qac37io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Balthus, <em>Katia Reading</em>, 1974</p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/50473433039http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/50473433039Tue, 14 May 2013 20:42:10 -0700balthuson reading“It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.”...http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/49109915491http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/49109915491Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:31:19 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/11aa138ea9fcd4f3a65f21c1eed71ade/tumblr_mll6016QvX1qz4f5wo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3a3457b19e3d575a30aee1268eec3012/tumblr_mll6016QvX1qz4f5wo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b8c7f541e24b5dda866cb4353e0d59ab/tumblr_mll6016QvX1qz4f5wo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Last days of Adobe Books on 16th Street—a little more than a month to go before it moves to 24th and Folsom.</p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/48494599974http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/48494599974Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:36:01 -0700photo by kenneth traynorBlack and WhiteAdobe Books<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/696d613cab96afc8d9234fe4cfafe8b4/tumblr_mla6crq0X41qz4f5wo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Cover of Los Premios by Julio Cortazar</p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/48022025848http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/48022025848Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:10:03 -0700julio cortazarbook cover<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c124d1ab339e8ab7046de73b5f9e0b94/tumblr_mkm1eqjkkr1qac37io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Luis Camnitzer, <em>Landscape as an Attitude</em>, 1979 </p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/47546312538http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/47546312538Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:35:14 -0700photographyFiction Rule of Thumb (xkcd): http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/47544686262http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/47544686262Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:03:28 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e0162b6ed2aba2f4fd7393dc83d1288c/tumblr_mke3gopTb51qatsq6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>(via <a href="http://art-et-cancrelats.blogspot.it/2012/09/marco-cazzato.html">Art et Cancrelats: Marco Cazzato</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/46547849482http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/46547849482Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:15:49 -0700marco cazzato<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0f73a81903fe64fa646e0701fce97c58/tumblr_mk4gtoGANo1qz4f5wo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><br/>Corsair Sanglot felt a new esteem growing for him and in himself.  Since he had understood and accepted the monotony of Eternity, he advanced straight as a stick through adventures like slithering vines, not stopping his progress.  An new exaltation had replaced his depression.  A sort of reverse enthusiasm led him to consider the failure of his most cherished enterprises as totally without interest.  Time’s freedom had finally conquered him.  He had merged with the patient minutes in sequence, each resembling the others.</p> <p>—Robert Desnos, from La Liberte ou L’Amour! (Freedom or Love!)</p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/46081173728http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/46081173728Sat, 23 Mar 2013 09:37:01 -0700robert desnosGiorgio de Chirico<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a94b94bdc87bd8a8b602d73dd27bcaff/tumblr_mjthvnr0Qy1qz4f5wo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><br/>In the desert, lost, irremediably lost, the white-helmeted explorer finally realized the reality of mirages, and of unknown treasures, the dreamed-of fauna, the improbable flora which made up the sensual paradise where he will from now on evolve, a scarecrow without sparrows, a tomb without epitaph, a man without name, while, in a formidable displacement, the pyramids reveal the dice hidden under their weighty mass and pose once more the irritating problem of bygone fatality and of future destiny.</p> <p><br/>—Robert Desnos, from La Liberte ou L’Amour (Freedom or Love!),  picture from Lawrence of Arabia</p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/45602702421http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/45602702421Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:26:00 -0700robert desnoslawrence of arabia<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/45583e51a5022365b4f4d703750a4ff6/tumblr_mjs79cNTmS1qz4f5wo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Cover of the New Black Mask magazine #7</p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/45546558499http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/45546558499Sat, 16 Mar 2013 18:40:02 -0700book cover designnoirblack mask<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5450c33a55629b934844f1b2f504c3df/tumblr_mjryjsfFql1qz4f5wo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><br/>We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind.  The procession is very long and life is very short.  We die on the march.  But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.  The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up pieces by piece, or be written again in another language.  Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more.  Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. <br/><br/>—Tom Stoppard, from Arcadia</p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/45532861982http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/45532861982Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:31:00 -0700tom stoppardarcadia Congratulations to Adobe Books for meeting their goal of $60,000 to save  the store and start the...http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/45462021995http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/45462021995Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:29:00 -0700Adobe Booksbookstorephoto by kenneth traynor<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7eb6a3d55b45635ff361f6a4396859e5/tumblr_mjgwzjLTjQ1qz4f5wo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-adobe-books">Help Save Adobe Books</a></p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/45065256253http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/45065256253Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:26:12 -0700bookstoreadobe books<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6a882521cf3aaceceb326676aa5082f4/tumblr_mjgwr8ZznO1qz4f5wo1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Futures_of_Tycho">The Green Futures of Tycho</a> by William Sleator</p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/45064664752http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/45064664752Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:18:44 -0700book cover<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/08003c726243d1f02eff1a0a63a8879e/tumblr_mjdoyvqDAy1qac37io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>Hervé Guibert, 1982</span></p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/44963292133http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/44963292133Sat, 09 Mar 2013 12:31:20 -0800herve guibert<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9e60360f82dc18a705d7792eb0dacf25/tumblr_mitfe7dcNp1qf92q6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption"><span class="hasCaption">Remedios Varo, Paisaje torre centauro, 1943</span></span></p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/44598233907http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/44598233907Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:31:45 -0800remedios varo<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/bf1b299febec8d0659eefed8573526c0/tumblr_mibszln5Rl1qgnna0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>El Gato helecho -Remedios Varo</p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/44598159549http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/44598159549Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:30:40 -0800remedios varo<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/67fce8d46b08a71ecbbcbc256391372f/tumblr_mj5gj8xTTU1qz4f5wo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I want! I want! by William Blake.</p> <p>via <a href="http://biblioklept.org/2013/03/04/i-want-i-want-william-blake/">Biblioklept</a></p>http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/44553452323http://coldgreentea.tumblr.com/post/44553452323Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:54:00 -0800william blake