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the Art & Travel Deck, pt 1

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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. —Susan Sontag

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I wouldn’t have thought there was a huge call for this, although Borges is a better candidate than most. Still, if I was to translate Borges into Middle English, Labyrinths or Ficciones would perhaps be more interesting choices.

Little Venus and the Way of Things by Scott Taylor

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What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
—Nikos Kazantzakis

We didn’t simply read books; we became them. We took them into ourselves and made them into our histories. . . . Books were to us what drugs were to young men in the sixties.
—Anatole Broyard

Byung-Chul Han, from Saving Beauty:

Spot on. Interestingly, if you replace the phrase “A purely hectic rush” with “AI” it remains spot on.

If sleep represents the high point of bodily relaxation, deep boredom is the peak of mental relaxation. A purely hectic rush produces nothing new. It reproduces and accelerates what is already available.
—Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society

From Psycho-politics by Byung Chul Han, written in 2017. Acxiom is now known as LiveRamp.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
— Ambrose Bierce

Alchemy
acrylic on birch

from war and peace in the global village by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore

I am Waiting A performance of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's great poem I am Waiting—excerpted from Show 4: Separation Energy. on.soundcloud.com/RvM7s Music and performance by Scott Taylor ©2020. Transcripts can be

I am Waiting
By Lawrence Ferlighetti

FY!

Light box

Regardless of whether or not we’re formally making art, we are all living as artists.
—Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

this morning

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
—Orson Welles

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
—Mark Fisher

from my book October