Forbidden City, Beijing, China. April 30, 2016.
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forbidden city
Gate detail, Forbidden City, Beijing, April 30, 2016.
A Death in Tuscany
Giuttari, Michele, and Howard Curtis. A Death in Tuscany. London: Abacus, 2009. Print.
“Friendship is preferable to honors. It is better to be loved than honored.” Aristotle.
See Nicomechaen Ethics Book VIII Chapter 8 by Aristotle
River Arno flood of 1966
North Africans and Albanians in Florence p. 21-22
“The personal effects of the dead are always disturbing. It is as if they have suddenly lost their value along with their owner. They appear as they are, piles of objects more or less worn down by a use to which they wil no longer be put… But that wasn’t what disturbed Ferrara as he bent to pick up the wretched market-stall ring. It was the image of the girl reaching out her little hand to choose it from among others, the childish illusions she may have had in her mind as she slipped it on her finger.” p. 34
Police reports 119-121.
“Piazza della Republica to the Via degli Strozzi… Giambologna’s grim little devil at the corner of Via dei Vecchietti.” p. 125
see IL DIAVOLINO DEI VECCHIETTI
ilex evergreen oak
finding Claudia Pizzi’s leather shoulder bag containing her mobile and wallet with ID. p. 172
Hunting in the Pontine Marshes, oil on canvas by Horace Vernet, 1833. Via Wikimedia.
“He was the son of poor peasants from the Agro Pontino who had only ever known three coats of arms, the arms of Savoy, the Fascist emblem, and the shield of the Italian republic.” p. 197
“two columns of the Temple. The one in the north is Boaz, and the one in the south is Jachin.” p. 202
“The three columns symbolise Wisdom, Strength and Beauty.” p. 203
Masonic ritual and symbolism
Pigpen cipher
בֵּית־הַמִּקְדָּשׁ Solomon’s Temple
Italian August bank holiday
Marble quarries in Carrara
To read:
Purloined Letter short story by Edgar Alan Poe
Forbidden City
Forbidden City, Beijing, China. April 30, 2016.
안리
안리 An Li the Dog guarding Gwangan Road from the rooftop of An Li odeng bar in Gwanganli, Busan, South Korea. December, 2016.
Centum City and Millak
View of Millak and Suyeong River from inside a department store in Centum City, Busan, South Korea. March 20, 2016.
books 2016
Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. New York: Bantam, 2009. Print. (First ed. 1895)
Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. New York: Vintage International, 1989. Print. (First ed. 1979)
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Don Quijote De La Mancha. Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2015. Print. (First ed. 1605)
Faulkner, William. The Sound and The Fury. New York: Vintage International, 1990. Print. (1984 correction, first ed. 1929)
Dahl, Roald. Boy: Tales of Childhood. Great Britain: Penguin, 1984. Print.
Joyce, James. Dubliners. New York: Signet Classics, 2007. Print. (First ed. 1914.)
Brooks, Max. World War Z: An Oral History of The Zombie War. New York: Broadway, 2006. Print.
Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. New York: Dover Thrift, 2016. (First ed. 1862. Written in the 100s.)
Allen, Woody. Mere Anarchy. New York: Random House, 2007. Print.
Greene, Graham. The Lawless Roads. London: Penguin, 1976. Print. (First Ed. 1939)
Roth, Philip. Everyman. New York: Vintage International, 2006.
Vallejos, Soledad. Trimarco: la mujer que lucha por todas las mujeres. Argentina: Aguilar, 2013. Print.
Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? New York: Del Rey, 1996. (First. ed 1968)
Guillebeau, Chris. The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life. New York: Harmony Books, 2014. Print.
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. New York, New York: Signet, 1965.
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. London, England: Penguin Classics, 2000. Print. [First ed. 1949.]
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Del Rey, 1991. (First Ed. 1953.)
Covey, Stephen R. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic. New York, N.Y.: Free Press, 2004. Print. (First ed. 1989).
Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. New York, N.Y.; Penguin, 2007. Print. (First ed. 2006)
Haddon, Mark. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2004. Print. (First ed. 2003)
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. New York, N.Y.: Signet Classics, 1996. Print. (First ed. 1945).
O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, 1990. Print.
McCarthy, Cormac. The Gardener’s Son: a screenplay. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Print.
McCarthy, Cormac. The Orchard Keeper. New York, N.Y.: Vintage International, 1993. Print. (First ed. 1965).
Burroughs, William. Naked Lunch. New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1966. Print.
Elam, Kimberly. Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition. New York: Princeton Architectural, 2001. Print.
Friedlander, Gerald. Jewish Fairy Tales. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1997. Print.
McCarthy, Cormac. Child of God. New York, N.Y.: Vintage International. 1993.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1973.
Graysmith, Robert. Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of The Nation’s Most Bizarre Mass Murderer. New York, NY: Berkley, 2007.
Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values. New York: Harper Torch, 2006. Print.
Confucius, and D. C. Lau. The Analects (Lun Yü). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979. Print.
Wong, Stanford. Professional Video Poker. La Jolla: Pi Yee Press, 1994. Print.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and The Sea. New York: Bantam, 1965. Print.
LP: San Francisco
Block, Bruce A. The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media. 2nd ed. Amsterdam: Focal/Elsevier, 2008. Print.
Hwang, Sŏn-mi, Chi-Young Kim, and Nomoco. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly: A Novel. U.S.: Penguin Books, 2013. Print.
Murakami, Haruki. After the Quake. Trans. Jay Rubin. London: Vintage, 2007. Print.
Turnbull, Stephen R., and Peter Dennis. Japanese Castles in Korea, 1592-98. Oxford: Osprey, 2007. Print.
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. New York: Penguin, 1993. Print.
Munro, Alice. Dear Life: Stories. New York: Vintage International, 2012. Print.
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York.: Scribner, 2003. Print.
Arai, Yoshio (Ed.). Great American Speeches 1775-1965. Tokyo, Japan.: The Hokuseido Press, 1994.
Biskind, Peter. Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2011.
Haruki Murakami. 村上 春樹 Norwegian Wood. (translated by Jay Rubin) 2011. Vintage Open-Market Edition. Published in Japanese in 1987.
Hawking, Stephen and Leonard Mlodinow. The Grand Design.
McCarthy, Cormac. The Road. New York: Vintage International, 2007. Print.
Neruda, Pablo. Cantos ceremoniales. Buenos Aires: Losada, Tercera edición 23-XI-1977.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and Guy Reynolds. The Great Gatsby. Ware: Wordsworth Classics, 2001. Print.
McCarthy, Cormac. Suttree. New York. Vintage International. 1992.
Fisher, Roger, William Ury, and Bruce Patton. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving in. New York: Penguin, 2011. Print.
Lowell, Ross. Matters of Light & Depth: Creating Memorable Images for Video, Film & Stills through Lighting. Philadelphia: Broad Street, 1992. Print.
Read: Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin, 1991. Print.
Korean Picture Dictionary
LP: Thailand: Bangkok, Ko Samet, Ayutthaya
EL Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Qvixote de La Mancha (primera parte) II
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Don Quijote De La Mancha: Edición Conmemorativa IV Centenario Cervantes. Madrid: Real Academia Española, 2015. Print. (First ed. 1605)
POST TENEBRAS SPERO LVCEM “Tras las tinieblas espero la luz” Job, XVII, 12. (lema en la portada) p. 2
maravedí
Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro.
La libertad no se vende bien ni por todo el oro del mundo. p. 10
Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.
La pálida muerte visita por igual las chozas del los pobres y las torres de los reyes. Horacio p. 11
To read Horacio (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Donec eris felix, multos numberabis amicos.
Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris
Mientras seas dichoso, contarás con muchos amigos, pero si los tiempos se nublan, estarás solo. p. 11
“El río Tajo fue así dicho por un rey de las Españas; tiene su nacimiento en tal lugar y muere en el mar Océano, besando los muros de la famosa ciudad de Lisboa, y es opinión que tiene las arenas de oro.” p. 12
View of Toledo. El Greco. c. 1596–1600. Via Wikimedia.
See Cristóbal de Fonseca
Poetics by Aristotle
Cicero
Ad adolescentes by Basil of Caesarea
“campo de Montiel (Comarca de la Mancha, entre Ciudad Real y Albacete donde se incia la acción)” p. 14
Mapa del Campo del Montiel histórico (fragmento de la antigua provincia de La Mancha, por Thomás López Pensionista, año 1765). Via Wikimedia.
décimas de cabo roto
“Si de llegarte a los bue-,
libro, fueres con lectu-,
no te dirá el boquirru-
que no pones bien los de-.” p. 15
“DON Belaianís DE GRECIA
A DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA
… Mas, aunque sobre el cuerno de la luna
siempre se vio encumbrada mi ventura,
tus proezas envidio, ¡oh gran Quijote!” p. 19
DE SOLISDÁN
A DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA
“Personaje desconocido, ya su nombre se deba a una errata o a confusión de Cervantes, ya se trate de un pseudónimo o anagrama.” p. 23
“En resolución, él se enfrascó tanto en su lectura que se le pasaban las noches leyendo de claro en claro, y los días de turbio en turbio; y así, del poco dormir y del mucho leer, se le secó el celebro de manera que vino a perder el juicio.” p. 29-30
To Read La Chanson de Roland Cancion de Roldán
Mort de Roland. Jean Fouquet. 1455-1460. Via Wikimedia.
****”no sólo se había contentado con llamarse “Amadís” a secas, sino que añadió el nombre de su reino y patria, por hacerla famosa, y se llamó “Amadís de Gaula”, así quiso, como buen caballero, añadir el suyo el nombre de la suya y llamarse “don Quijote de la Mancha”” p. 32
alcaide
Jaesong
February, 2016. Jaesong, Busan, South Korea.
Blue Dusk
Centum City and Gwangan at dusk. February, 2016. Jangsan Mountain, Busan, South Korea.