February 2012
1 post
January 2011
1 post
“Some people have asked,”if production is so high, why is our food supply...”
– Mao Zedong on July 2, 1959, while tens of millions were dying the famine of the Great Leap Forward
from The Private Life of Chairman Mao by his personal physician Dr. Li Zhisui
November 2010
11 posts
“An inernal pile remedy for the cure of PIles, Inflammation of the Liver and...”
– 1850s advertisement in the Charleston Mercury for Dr. Upham’s Pile Electuary
“There are certain Maladies, which take away the Use of the Reason either...”
October 2010
22 posts
“Why are the people starving?
Because those above them are taxing them too...”
– Tao Te Ching #75, trans. John C.H. Wu
“By any means to fill a white surface, with an action sustained by an elemental,...”
– Antonio Saura, 1959
“If there are hands to be used only for addressing the infinite and the universe,...”
– Yukio Mishima, The Decay of the Angel, 1970
September 2010
12 posts
“Blood stuck all over one side of her body and clothing. On the other side, the...”
– end of Fatale, Jean-Patrick Manchette, 1977 (my humble translation)
“Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred...”
– opening paragraph, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, 1982, Philip K. Dick
August 2010
9 posts
