Vila , Self Portrait - Tove Jansson. , 1943
Finnish , 1914-2001
Oil on canvas , 61 x 74 cm.

Vila , Self Portrait - Tove Jansson. , 1943
Finnish , 1914-2001
Oil on canvas , 61 x 74 cm.
Home library of the late Richard Macksey, legendary Hopkins prof.
Victoria Chang, from With My Back to the World: Poems; “The Islands, 1961”
Vladimir Nabokov’s note card, c. 1969.
“[March 21 1951]
Student explaining to me (after getting 55) that when reading a novel (’Ulysses’ in this case) he likes to skip ‘passages and pages’ so as ‘to get his own idea, you know, about the book and not be influenced by the author’.”
Finally, someone with worse reading comprehension than tumblr!
…well?
Reblog for larger sample size, etc. Go eat an apple.
Elliott Erwitt, New York City, 1954
thinking of my best friend today
gps but for a way out of this
and i don’t even like staying up this late i just do it