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One sentence puzzles me: The world was constantly speaking to Ancient Man. I do not understand why this sentence is in the past tense. The World still speaks to me every day.
Susanna Clarke • Piranesi
“If you want a new world, start making it right now, in whatever you are doing.” This is the best advice I ever had, it came from Brian Eno. If you imagine the world you would like to be in and start making objects, systems and collaborations that belong to that world, that world comes into being.
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“The anditode to doom is curiosity.”
-Ezra Klein
“If your world is not enchanted, you’re not paying attention.”
Alex Dobrenko • The Bucket Theory of Creativity
Laurence Arne-Sayles began with the idea that the Ancients had a different way of relating to the world, that they experienced it as something that interacted with them. When they observed the world, the world observed them back.
Susanna Clarke • Piranesi
Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The differenc
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This is what I call a Distributary World – it was created by ideas flowing out of another world. This world could not have existed unless that other world had existed first.
Susanna Clarke • Piranesi
1. “We tell stories because we have a hollow place in our heart. You don’t fill that with success. You fill it by finding yourself in the stories you tell.”
–Guillermo Del Toro
–Guillermo Del Toro