February 2012
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Les Chants de Maldoror - Conde de Lautréamont →
pattonmike:
Les Chants de Maldoror (The Songs of Maldoror) is a poetic novel consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautréamont, the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse. Many of the surrealists (Salvador Dalí, André Breton, Antonin Artaud, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Max Ernst, etc.) during the early 20th century cited the novel as a major inspiration to...
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Harvard Makes Robot Bees [VIDEO] →
[brightcove video=”1462876717001” /] Bio-inspired bees made from stacks of carbon fiber are buzzing right off the production line at Harvard’s Microrobotics Lab. Why build robot insects? The new mass-production technique is a huge step forward in constructing high-power switches, optical sy…
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I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself...
– The Outsider, Albert Camus (via drunkonliterature)
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