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Scans of the inside covers of Strang’s Calculus, which you can legally-download for free here from the MIT website. This is my all-time favorite math or physics textbook. Scanned it so I could cut and paste it into my new sketchbook, wanna try and make a ~cool artistic~ reference poster out of it, ‘cuz I’ve been real into that idea since I took notes about rings for the algebra midterm on a big piece of watercolor paper.

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The Heron, 1867, Frederic Bazille

Size: 97.5x78 cm Medium: oil on canvas

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The Press Herald, Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1934

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God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are black; creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render it transparent.

Victor Hugo’s draft of Les Miserables.

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E.M. Forster, from Virginia Woolf’s Monk’s House Album

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“You have always wanted to caress every monster.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Researching Victorian poetry & it is currently -2 °C (help)

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I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being (via wordscanbeenough)

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Mark Rothko

White Ban

(via @lonequixote)

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Vita Sackville-West to Harold Nicolson, 17 December 1925

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To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts.

Susan Sontag

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William Blake (1757-1827) ~ from The First Book of Urizen, relief etching 1794

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Pergamum, Aeolis, Greece

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I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

T.S. Eliot, from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (via theclassicsreader)