Katharine Park: “Every time I read something in The New York Times that Leonardo da Vinci had to hide the fact that he was doing dissection, and every time I listen to a tour guide in Italy tell these stories, it just kills me. I don’t know how to get rid of this myth.”
New issue of my newsletter – featuring fakery, a cathedral builder, and an Advent poem – may be found here. (With some formatting issues I need to find a way to fix, sorry about that.)
Friedrich Kittler (1992): “I am adamantly in favor of the clean separation of the inorganic from the organic. My whole fascination has been dedicated to thinking this brilliant pebble, as the Pentagon so nicely put it — the silica material from which the whole thing is made; why mess that up with the already messy sauce inside our skulls?”
Treat ev’ry man according to his deserts, and who should ‘scape a scathing takedown?
My local coffee shop (Dichotomy) takes Christmas very seriously.
