(Source: these-times-will-pass, via k-indhearted)
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(via staystrong-stayamazing)
What is death to a linguist? What is, so to speak, worth mourning? I know this: there are sixty-nine hundred languages in the world. More than half are expected to die within the next century. In fact, it’s estimated that every two weeks, a language dies. I don’t know about you, but that statistic moves me far ore than any statistic about how many animals die or people die in a given time, in a given place. Because when we say language dies, we are talking about a whole world, a whole way of life. It is the death of imagination, of memory. It makes me much sadder than I could ever possibly express. Even with all my languages, there still aren’t the right words.
The Language Archive (via fuckyeahgreatplays)
(Source: sabrinaasaysshello, via k-indhearted)
(via live-to-listen)
A painting is a visual path that looking follows. A musical composition does the same for listening. Art is a summoning of attention. To create it requires the highest directed focus, as does experiencing it.
Sven Birkerts makes a fine addition to history’s greatest definitions of art.
Complement with Susan Sontag on art and Greil Marcus on the essence of the art impulse.
(HT @albertocairo)
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