George Allen
George Allen
Adam Fuss.
untitled. from the series My Ghost.
The Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind was published in 1837 for children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston. Without a drop of ink in the book, the text and maps in this extraordinary atlas were embossed heavy paper with letters, lines, and symbols.
(via mapsinchoate)
Gaspar Schott, Wall Height, from Ioco-Seriorum Naturae Et Artis, Sive Magiae Naturalis Centuriae Tres, 1667.
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(Source: mapsinchoate)
Galileo Galilei. Sidereus nuncius magna, longeque admirabilia spectacula pandens. Venice: Tommaso Baglioni, 1610.
(Source: chikuwaq, via journalofanobody)
Pg. 369 of David Markson’s copy of Melville by Edwin Haviland Miller:
On which Markson placed a check in the margin next to information about Melville’s death:
“In July Dr. Everett S. Warren took charge, and at 12:30 A.M. on September 28, 1981, Herman Melville died of ‘Cardiac dilatation, Mitral regurgitation…Contributory Asthenia,’ as the death certificate stated.”
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In an earlier post I discussed an X in the margins of a different book about Melville where the place of Melville’s death was mentioned.
In doing so I quoted Reader’s Block and Vanishing Point. I feel obligated to quote them again, because the information from the above scan is actually more pertinent to those quotes than the scan from my previous post. So here goes nothing…
“September 28, 1891, 12:30 am 104 East 26th Street, New York. Cardiac dilatation, mitral regurgitation, contributing asthenia.
Melville.”
Markson wrote in Reader’s Block on pg. 176.
The location and date gets picked up again on pg. 185 of Vanishing Point:
“East Twenty-sixth Street, Manhattan. 12:30 A.M. September 28, 1891.”
Just one entry in a list of locations, times and dates that correspond to various deaths of artists.
VITTORIO PIERGIOVANNI ( -2010)
Loreto, Ciascuno a suo modo (Loreto, Each in its own way), 1957
gelatin silver print
(Source: yama-bato)
Vladimir Nabokov. The Original of “Laura”.
