Posts Tagged ‘leonard cohen’

December 5, 2009 2

An Example of Intentional Design

By Robert Minto in Appreciation, Art, Blogging, Design

Whilst googling recipes for bacon-wrapped sirloin and listening to Leonard Cohen’s “Democracy,” I took a break (out of frustration that I have no mustard on hand…) and did some blog-design browsing. (Blog-design browsing involves surfing around one’s favorite blogs and the blogs they link to, mainly ignoring content in order to examine their layout, color, [...]

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November 26, 2009 1

The Spine as the “Seat of Artistic Delight”

By Robert Minto in Appreciation, Art, Music

Another gem from Desiring the Kingdom. Smith quotes Vladimir Nabokov on reading Bleak House, for the purpose of demonstrating how embodied our imaginations are:
All we have to do when reading Bleak House is to relax and let our spines take over. Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the [...]

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