My fellow Wellesley ‘12 alumna Annabelle has put together a literary edition of the overdone “What would ____ call me” tumblr, whatshouldshakespearecallme . It’s quite clever, and a fantastic thing to quickly peruse while pretending to do work.
“Of such a letter, Death himself might well have been the post-boy.”
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Salvador Dalí’s 100 Illustrations of Dante’s The Divine Comedy / Inferno: Canto 31 The Hands of Antaeus
In 1957, the Italian government commissioned Dalí to paint a series of 100 watercolor illustrations of Danté’s Divine Comedy. Dalí was Spanish and not Italian, which enraged the Italian people to such an extent they demanded the project be stopped. To which Dalí said “go to hell” and finished the watercolors anyways.
Captain Ahab is beginning to think the whale might be some kind of metaphor.
It’s a literary map of San Francisco! ZOMGZ SO COOL. I’m geeking pretty hard trying to figure out where each quote comes from. Now, how do I get a poster of this to complement my other San Francisco poster?
On the Road : movie edition.
Yes no maybe? This picture looks promising.
Emilie Futterman [eh-mi-lee] (noun) : A global cultural and product strategist, which is a fancy way of saying I like to think really hard about how people all over the world interact with culture and things.
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