July 2010
58 posts
Picasso’s Guernica depicts the suffering wrought by a German bombing in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War.
Three years later, when the artist was living in Nazi-occupied Paris, a Gestapo officer saw a photo of the painting in his apartment. “Did you do that?” he asked.
“No,” Picasso said. “You did.”
The Treachery of Images | Futility Closet
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“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit”
– Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD), Metamorphoses, book XV, line 165
“A wake is a ceremony associated with death. Traditionally, a wake takes place in...”
– Wake (ceremony)
“Adam and Noah exist here now. Adam lives to be 930, Noah 950. We can imagine a...”
– Chisholm’s Paradox | Futility Closet
“Ukoliko me ne voliš, onda nikada neću biti voljen. Ukoliko te ne volim, onda...”
– Semjuel Beket
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“Men in monogamous societies imagine they would be better off under polygyny....”
– Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature | Psychology Today
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swisscheeseandbullets:
I’m not sure, but I think I may have got the 25th anniversary edition of a Taschen book. No way to know for sure.
“The average person thinks he isn’t.”
– Father Larry Lorenzoni
“is the belief that some or all matter is sentient or that properties of matter...”
– Hylopathism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“EARTH HAS 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY
TIME CUBE
IN ONLY 24 HOUR ROTATION.
4...”
– Time Cube
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