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Bruno Schulz - The Street of Crocodiles
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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And having finished what proved to be the best book I've read in a long time, Bruno Schulz's "The Street of Crocodiles", introduced to it by the animation of the same name by The Brothers Quay, a rich, vivid, metaphorical description of the author's life in Poland around the turn of the century.
“There open up, deep inside a city, reflected streets, streets which are double, make-believe streets. One's imagination, bewitched and misled, creates illusory maps of the apparently familiar districts, maps in which the streets have their proper places and usual names but are provided with new and fictitious configurations by the inexhaustible inventiveness of the night.”
You can read it online here: http://www.schulzian.net/translation/shops.htm, which may be easier than finding a print edition...
The Really Big One
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Link of the day
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An excellent and well written article on the likelihood and impact of a major earthquake on the Pacific North West.
Read it here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
Ebay VS Kijiji (2)
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- Category: Miscellany
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And so finally I get around to listing all those leftover possessions from Kijiji on Ebay. The local marketplace, well, it's good for things like sofas and coffee tables, but the higher end collectibles will probably do better online.
And, sure enough, the Arriflex 16 Movie Camera is already at over $400 with over a dozen watchers, hoping it breaks a thousand...
Watchers on almost everything else, the Canon AE1 has attracted a couple of bids, all items were offered at no reserve and a .99 starting price, this could be a very interesting experiment and an excellent subsidy for my income and a way to show profit, finally, after all my thrift shop prospecting adventures...
Payday
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Payday and it's time to juggle the bills. Which ones get paid, which ones get postponed, the car repair, it's gonna be expensive and I don't know exactly how expensive. The creditors that are calling, they'er the first, there's rent, phone, utilities, the locker, there's the AMA, the internet, auto insurance, taxes, everything being tossed around in abstract space while I worry about which ones to pay first, which ones I can comfortably lay aside, 3.4 weeks of work left might not be enough time to balance the books and take this prospecting vacation...
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