This iconic photograph is still considered one of the most-terrifying space photographs to date. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human being to do a spacewalk without a safety tether linked to a spacecraft. In 1984, he floated completely untethered in space with…

Those who left but always stayed☕️

.... Cy Twombly

🔳 Daphne du Maurier died on this day, in 1989

‘I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands'
~ Daphne du Maurier

It’s funny, I thought, how the routine of life goes on, whatever happens.
No crises can break through the crust of habit.
~ Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

💙 read by Paul Paul Holdengraber
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“It's funny, I thought, how the routine of life goes on, whatever happens; we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.”

― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

quotomania.simplecast.com/episodes/quoto… Paul Holdengraber

“We are light, you see, all of light— . . .
The soul itself is a memory we carry of having once moved at the speed and density of light. The first step . . . here is learning how to re-acquire that rarefaction, . . .” (688)

Pynchon / Against the Day

Albert Einstein est mort le 18 avril 1955, d’une rupture d’anévrisme, il y a donc 69 ans. Juste avant d’expirer, il prononça quelques phrases en allemand, mais l’infirmière de garde cette nuit-là à l’hôpital de Princeton ne parlait pas cette langue : elle ne put donc, hélas, ni…

© Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1950.

I was signing at McNally Jackson and ran into this giant! She was signing her newest, A BOOK OF DAYS. 1 thing I love about Patti Smith is that her art is always a call—to action, to love, to life. Her voice is at times gentle, at times fierce and the world is richer for it.

'to find to find to find / that nakedness.'

Love this poem by Muriel Rukeyser so much.

Wynn Bullock #botd in 1902

Point Lobos Rock,
Wynn Bullock #botd in 1902

Wynn Bullock #botd in 1902

📸 Wynn Bullock, ( 18 April 1902 - 16 November 1975 ).
Big Sur, 1957.

...In the beginning, I was an art supremacist. I believed that all I had to do was defend the castle of art. But that isn't sufficient for a man to maintain his spirit.

Yukio Mishima, Waseda University, October 1968

I border still on a word and on a different land,
I border, like little else, on everything more and more.

— Ingeborg Bachmann (translated by Mark Anderson)

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Calvino

I was very worried about myself. What might I become, this person myself? If left to run free, I would collapse into little pieces. If I didn't maintain myself in the world of ideas, I worried that I would fall to pieces.

Yukio Mishima, lecture at Waseda University, 1968

Remembering Wynn Bullock on his birthday 🎂
📷 Judy Dater, 1972
'Bullock can transform a tree trunk into a shamanistic spirituality, or pebbles, orphaned from beaches, into a cinerarium of skeletons through his visual dislocations.'
- David L. Shirey