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Author Archives: Brian D. Butler
Paris with Eugène Atget
While searching for early Paris photographs for a project, I ran across the marvelous video below. The short film pairs the images by the pioneering street photographer Eugène Atget with the music of Wim Mertens. NB: If the video fails … Continue reading
Time Travel Philosophy
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Posted in Animation, Art, Books
Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Emmanuel Levinas, Friedrich Nietzsche
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Airport Lost and Found
Have you ever experienced that sinking feeling when your luggage failed to appear on the airport carousel ? Or have you ever reached your destination and realized that you left your headphones or other valuables in the airline seat pocket … Continue reading
Darkness Visible
I recently read Nick Harkaway’s exciting novel Titanium Noir. The blurb above is a better recommendation for the book than any review that I could ever post. If you haven’t read Harkaway, it’s not a bad place to start. After reading the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, movies, Writing
Tagged Film Noir, genre fiction, Michael Chabon, Nick Harkaway
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It was a bright cold day in April, so sweaters were necessary
Every knitter and Orwell fan that you know will want this free download: a knitting pattern for a sweater depicting the cover of the iconic Penguin Classics version of George Orwell’s 1984. “The pattern includes extra alphabet charts so that … Continue reading
it had been overrun by religious stupefiers, mountebanks, charlatans, obfuscators, and other dedicated misleaders,
“When young and full of fellow feeling, Professor Joseph Skizzen had been tormented by the thought that the human race (which he naïvely believed was made up of great composers, a few harmlessly lecherous painters, maybe a mathematician or a … Continue reading
Middle Earth Obsession
Like many Travel Between The Pages readers, I’m a big J.R.R.Tolkien fan. I can date my interest in Middle Earth back to a bit of graffiti that I saw on a wall in New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood when … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Film, Maps, movies, Writing
Tagged Bilbo, Frodo, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Middle Earth
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Oh, horror upon horror!
Few writers have the ability to evoke a sense of horror and dread more effectively than Edgar Allan Poe, born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe’s parents were actors. Their bright but unstable son grew up to be … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Museums, USA, Writing
Tagged Edgar Allan Poe, horror, Mystery
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The Disappointed Tourist
The Disappointed Tourist is a brilliant, on-going project in which artist Ellen Harvey is making paintings of places suggested by members of the public in response to the question: “Is there some place that you would like to visit or … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Europe, History, Middle East, Tourism, USA
Tagged automat, France, New York City, tourist attractions
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