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451 / Six² via this isn’t happiness

Mon, 05 May 2008 17:05:22 -0400

"All things considered, nothing besides ethanol was found in the absinthes that was able to explain..."

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:34:37 -0400

“All things considered, nothing besides ethanol was found in the absinthes that was able to explain the syndrome “absinthism”.”

- Chemical Composition of Vintage Preban Absinthe with Special Reference to Thujone, Fenchone, Pinocamphone, Methanol, Copper, and Antimony Concentrations

[via ScienceDaily]

Paris, May 1968. From a slideshow at the New York Times.

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:11:36 -0400

Paris, May 1968.

From a slideshow at the New York Times.

Paul Valéry, La jeune Parque, 1925 edition. Cover by...

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:03:51 -0400

Paul Valéry, La jeune Parque, 1925 edition.

Cover by Jeran-Gabriel Daragnès (1886-1950). Published in Paris by Émile-Paul frères, 1925.

“On the night of 4 October 1892, during a heavy storm, Paul Valéry entered an existential crisis. It became known as ‘The night of Genua’, and it made such a big impression on Valéry that he decided to give his career as an author a new direction: he stopped writing poetry. … For nearly twenty years, Valéry did not publish a single word.

Not until 1917 did Valéry break this ‘Great Silence’ with the publication of La jeune Parque, a poem of 500 lines of verse on which he had worked for approximately four years.”

From the collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National library of the Netherlands

Camille Claudel, Clotho, 1893: «la fileuse, la plus jeune des...

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:46:30 -0400

Camille Claudel, Clotho, 1893: «la fileuse, la plus jeune des Parques»

via Amateur d’art

"Journalists at Le Monde, one of France’s most highly respected daily newspapers, went on..."

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:23:40 -0400

“Journalists at Le Monde, one of France’s most highly respected daily newspapers, went on strike for only the second time in the paper’s history on Monday in protest at heavy cuts in newsroom staff.”

- guardian.co.uk

Poster for “Rififi” (1955), perhaps the classic...

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:33:54 -0400

Poster for “Rififi” (1955), perhaps the classic heist movie of all time, directed by the late Jules Dassin, 1911-2008.

A nocturnal country lane in France, by Lucien Rudaux, spotted by...

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:15:01 -0400

A nocturnal country lane in France, by Lucien Rudaux, spotted by Woolgathersome.

The poetry is by Johannes Bobrowski, but it could equally well be by Philippe Jacottet.

L’Arrivée d’un train à La Ciotat, (Lumière Brothers,...

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:12:00 -0400

L’Arrivée d’un train à La Ciotat, (Lumière Brothers, 1895).

This is the footage that supposedly made the audience that first saw it rush from their seats in panic.

via Wuthering Expectations

Marché - Boulevard de la Villette - Paris - 03/2008 PhotoSnack:...

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:49:36 -0400

Marché - Boulevard de la Villette - Paris - 03/2008

PhotoSnack: Radis’bambelle

Yorkshire’s answer to Georges Brassens, Jake Thackray,...

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:28:00 -0500

Yorkshire’s answer to Georges Brassens, Jake Thackray, with the man himself. By way of announcing an eight-day sojourn in the Yorkshire Dales, during which this tumblelog will be rollin’ and tumblin’, but just more slowly than usual.

via the always-excellent World Of Kane