Babel

Michael Romano, Milton Läufer & all the contributors to BAR

Library of Babel as visualized by Erik Desmazieres.

(Each of the following sentences comes from the texts of the Review.
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Unattached. David Shook (Phoneme Media 2013) (Read about the book in The New York Times, or check out a review @ Words Without Borders) The Transparent Bird's Gaze tr. This allergy to others is one of the most distinguishing traits of Vasconcelos’ personality. I got the feeling some kind of ritual was regularly performed here, like the Japanese construction of Shinto shrines, or that popular gift-wrapping practice, furoshiki. And under the window, your face was not intimate as those of persons one loves but vaguer and therefore more intimate in its shadowed complexity.