July 2011
5 posts
Cookies by Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams (author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) tells the perfect story to illustrate the non-confrontational disposition of the British.
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This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I’d gotten the time of the train wrong.
I went to get...
The Uncollected Essays →
An immeasurably valuable list of Every David Foster Wallace Essay Previously Lacking Collective Publication. Including links to read them all.
Most are quite short, just small bits and pieces of writing. The more ‘worth it’ substantial essays include The Nature of Fun on writing fiction, Hail The Returning Dragon, Clothed New Fire on AIDS, and inevitably his Kenyon Commencement...
Library Project Two: The Dewey Decimal System
The newest instalment in being my mother’s graphic design “servant,” I illustrated a series of posters that organise sections of the library according to the dewey decimal system.
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The design was originally based off a Dewey set made by Susanna Ryan but needing different colour co-ordination and some illustration changes, we got permission to remake it. The original:
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