Gold. Werner Herzog reads hipster favorite Go The F☁ck To Sleep at LIVE from NYPL. And 5 ½ more Werner Herzog gems.
Why, exactly, is this a “hipster” favorite? What distinguishes this from subversive children’s literature throughout the decades, from Dr. Seuss’ underground side-projects to Shel Silverstein? Does the back of the book instruct the reader to grow ironic facial hair and buy PBR tallboys at whatever momentarily trendy dive bar? Are there pictures of guys in Daisy Dukes and drunk young women in Native American headdresses? Does the narrator append “GET IT?!” to the end of every page?
“If you don’t read or write, you can’t be educated, you can’t care about anything — you’ve gotta put something in people’s heads so the metaphors bounce around and collide with each other and make new metaphors.”
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Ray Bradbury, brilliant as ever, in a rare 2003 interview on fixing education and our responsibility to future generations. (via explore-blog)
And only slightly racist against nonliterate world cultures. Swing that sword, Victorian Imperialist.
“One of these brothers was called Comestor‥, as it were booke-eater, because he was such a “Helluo librorum,” a devourer of bookes.”
— Simon Birckbek, Protestants Evidence (xii), 1635
“Let the childe, by and by, both construe and parse it ouer againe.”
— R. Ascham, scholemaster (1570)
