"The afternoon light, filtered by the imposing stone ramparts of the Andes, was a ghost of its morning self, an optics of the mind, inhabited by the untimely pinks of mid-afternoon."

An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, César Aira

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GAMBIT: Load Game: The Snowfield →

The idea was not to relying [sic] on codified narrative theories or formulas - like three-act structures, etc. - but rather assume “what makes a good story” cannot be systematized and instead must be arrived at organically via extensive user testing.

"I think that discussion came up tonight a little bit…[Sundance Film Festival senior programmer] Shari Frilot said it’s about the story. Conceptualize the story and then figure out the platform."

MIT’s Open Documentary Lab: part think tank, part incubator for filmmakers and hackers » Nieman Journalism Lab

"The song was a pale ghost like a rose that is madly beautiful but mortal: pale and mortal the girl was today the soft and horrifying ghost of a childhood without balls or dolls."

Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"For at the hour of death a person becomes a shining movie star, it’s everyone’s moment of glory and it’s when as in choral chanting you hear the whooshing shrieks."

Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

"Literature changes reality, modifies readers’ attitudes and conscience. We ourselves have been changed, transformed, by certain books, for good or for ill. The consequences of literature are not immediate, like what a news report, a film, an article might achieve, but it pervades the memory more, it’s more profound, more deeply human and spiritual. The written word touches the soul’s marrow."

BOMB Magazine: Evelio Rosero by Antonio Ungar

"The question of origins, then, is the central secret of our anxiety and anguish. It is worth studying the significance of this fact."

Octavio Paz, “The Sons of La Malinche,” The Labyrinth of Solitude

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Paul Chan, “Burning Kindle”

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The Stone: On Modern Time →

Even in this frenetic age, we can experience our lives beyond the limitations of the calendar and the clock.

Why We Love Zombies →

“At a time when everyone is worried about whether or not they are going to be able to pay their mortgage or afford their groceries,” [Robert Kirkman, creator of “The Walking Dead” comic] says, “it’s oddly comforting to be able to sit down at the end of the day and watch a television show where they can say, ‘My life kinda sucks, but at least I’m not getting chased by zombies.’”