Journal of a Nobody
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. ~Italo Calvino
Commonplace book of a teacher, poet, and counselor.
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Bridge Pier, Rockaway Point, July 29, 1920
From New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac
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The Open Window
First Ave and 36th St, circa 1910-1911
Platinum print
From New York to Hollywood: The Photography of Karl Struss
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Woman at Window
New York City, 1947
From Jerome Liebling: Photographs
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