January 2010
26 posts
“Should one save oneself by abstraction or save oneself from abstraction?”
– Jacques Derrida, From Faith and Knowledge
At Day's Close →
Blogging Archaeology →
Uralt-Metropole in "Second Life" →
An article about Okapi Island in German.
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.”
– Winston Churchill (via kissmeimlazy)
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National Park Service Course in Managing... →
“It is most unpleasant work to steal bones from a grave, but what is the use,...”
– Franz Boas, in a 1888 letter to his sister.
“Leave your tell for others as you would wish to find it. Too many excavated...”
– Mortimer Wheeler, Archaeology from the Earth
“Intensely emotive power struggle, rather than warmly supportive bonding, often...”
– Christa Salamandra - A New Old Damascus
“Damascus measures time not by days and months and years, but by the Empires she...”
– Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
“Our language can be seen as an old city: a maze of little streets and squares,...”
– L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
“Although tulips are associated with Holland, both the flower and its name...”
– Tulip, from wikipedia.
“Those stars that stare their stares at me —
Are those the staring stars I...”
– Nickles, from MacLeish’s J.B.