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The map is more interesting than the territory.
-Attributed, in a roundabout way, to Michel Houellebecq
Image: A chart of the Canarie and Madera Islands, ca. 1702-1707, NYPL Digitial Gallery
Title: Rilke, from Book of Images
Showing posts with label Michel Houellebecq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michel Houellebecq. Show all posts
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Like a flag, I am surrounded by distances
The map is more interesting than the territory.
-Attributed, in a roundabout way, to Michel Houellebecq
Image: A chart of the Canarie and Madera Islands, ca. 1702-1707, NYPL Digitial Gallery
Title: Rilke, from Book of Images
Friday, August 10, 2012
The Map or the Territory
"While ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy."
-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 87
Image: Paul Nougé, The Juggler, c. 1929-1930
Title: Nod to Michel Houellebecq
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