Moira Russell, Seattle, WA. Mosaic Musique Trntbl Tags Likes Stats *** Blogspot Goodreads Last.fm Librarything Twitter Youtube MOG Pinterest SoundCloud Google Plus Blip 8tracksTumblr (3.0; @theredshoes)http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0b93926a152d784976a51ba7068e4c83/tumblr_mfobvlRA491s1ajvjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ha, now if only I could get my fat black cat to sit on <a href="http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819564204/one-of-the-teetering-piles-the-books-are-resting">a pile of my books!</a> (without knocking them over….)</p>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50827048970http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50827048970Sun, 19 May 2013 09:02:46 -0700bookscatsBlack Catsblack cats are good luck<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d2833240ef9bbe30aa0570b3957f281f/tumblr_miznfotjx11qzd6kuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50826951883http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50826951883Sun, 19 May 2013 09:01:28 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/802c547734fe69583bcc003393f93071/tumblr_mlg0hzg4NB1qafc06o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://palides.tumblr.com/post/48296739315/theres-more-to-life-than-books-you-know-but-not">palides</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurislof/4981899893/" title="There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.">There’s more to life than books you know, but not much more.</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/laurislof/">Lauris Love</a> on Flickr.</p> </blockquote>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50826933382http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50826933382Sun, 19 May 2013 09:01:13 -0700“The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another...http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50826825402http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50826825402Sun, 19 May 2013 08:59:45 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/cbde47b774a1aac0351ac5f1e349251c/tumblr_mklg3f9BXT1rjf42ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://literatureiscool.tumblr.com/post/46957560617/riverrun-past-eve-and-adams-from-swerve-of">literatureiscool</a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote> <p>riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.</p> </blockquote> <p>- <em>Finnegans Wake</em> (1939), J. Joyce</p> </blockquote>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50826791093http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50826791093Sun, 19 May 2013 08:59:15 -0700Hermione Lee&#8217;s writing in her biography of Woolf is just so beautiful: The first memory of...http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50826695394http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50826695394Sun, 19 May 2013 08:57:52 -0700vanessa bellvirginia woolfhermione leequotes<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ea3dc5e95689ac055b65ddff34752eea/tumblr_mn1tx7qKR31qzsgryo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Yet another teetering pile. You can see BPAL bottles in the background.</p>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819697895http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819697895Sun, 19 May 2013 07:07:55 -0700booksmy books<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4b8c3a931bdde9fd04fd98ab72efea72/tumblr_mn1tt5T0pT1qzsgryo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>One of the teetering piles. The books are resting on a theatre trunk from the 1920s I got on sale from Brocklind’s <a href="http://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2013/01/hats-off-to-brocklinds-for-106-years-of-dressing-up-seattle/">when it closed.</a></p>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819564204http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819564204Sun, 19 May 2013 07:05:29 -0700booksseattle<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/227eff4db74218af9f34e5ea796170d5/tumblr_mn1tlz3uDx1qzsgryo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Bookshelves in my office.</p>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819326608http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819326608Sun, 19 May 2013 07:01:11 -0700booksovercrowding<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/cf280f67af88dddab5449b0cdd94acfe/tumblr_mmybxaIzpQ1rln7xto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://itakephotosofallthethings.tumblr.com/post/50659786114/couples-on-flickr-gas-works-park-seattle-wa">itakephotosofallthethings</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/antrover/8747089903/" title="Couples">Couples</a> on Flickr.</p> <p>Gas Works Park / Seattle, WA</p> </blockquote>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819087398http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819087398Sun, 19 May 2013 06:56:54 -0700“There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice. But I do know that art—in...http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819071612http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819071612Sun, 19 May 2013 06:56:37 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f3f37d2e5c42d889bc8513bc799248fb/tumblr_mmwdwhUQgF1qced37o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/50580722259/a-thinking-woman-sleeps-with-monsters-adrienne">theparisreview</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.” —<a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/05/16/happy-birthday-adrienne-rich/">Adrienne Rich</a>, from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IOBS04/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000IOBS04&linkCode=as2&tag=theparrev0f-20">“Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law.”</a> The <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/03/29/adrienne-rich/">American poet</a> and essayist was born on this day in 1929.</p> <p><em><small>Art Credit Daniel Hopfer</small></em></p> </blockquote>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819045565http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819045565Sun, 19 May 2013 06:56:08 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b5788470776f658ee7c0b29bdbfe7f1a/tumblr_mmznu2Q7eX1rui49ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://ancientart.tumblr.com/post/50785678853/the-ancient-egyptian-famine-stela-on-sehel-island" class="tumblr_blog">ancientart</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>The Ancient Egyptian <em>Famine-stela</em> on Sehel Island, near Aswan. It is thought to date to the Ptolemaic dynasty, 332–31 BC, though speaks of the reign of 3rd dynasty king Djoser.</p> <p>Photo courtesy & taken by <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:HoremWeb" title="User:HoremWeb">HoremWeb</a></p></blockquote>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819018902http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819018902Sun, 19 May 2013 06:55:39 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1406862e13992349cb4cfe66c58cafe0/tumblr_mmwx23DeLM1qac37io1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://mythologyofblue.tumblr.com/post/50791779672/athanasius-kircher-the-san-macuto-obelisk-which" class="tumblr_blog">mythologyofblue</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><span>Athanasius Kircher, </span><span><em>The San Macuto obelisk</em>, which today stands before the Pantheon in Rome, from </span><em>Romani Collegii Societatus Jesu musaeum celeberrimum: cujus magnum antiquariae rei, statuarum, imaginum, picturarumque partem ex legato Alphonsi Donini</em><span> (1678) </span><a href="http://echo.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ECHOdocuView?url=/permanent/library/WEBYGP7Y/index.meta&start=41&pn=50">+</a></p></blockquote>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819006691http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50819006691Sun, 19 May 2013 06:55:25 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c3d67a15673d5be194c9a1f08531670d/tumblr_mmsv0lhjrC1qzix81o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/50792569646/winged-lion-griffin-attacked-by-hero-over-kneeling" class="tumblr_blog">centuriespast</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>Winged Lion Griffin Attacked by Hero over Kneeling Calf</strong><br/><span>Cylinder seal</span><br/><span>Mesopotamia, Middle Assyrian period</span><br/><span>(ca.twelfth/eleventh century </span><span class="small">B.C.</span><span>)</span></p> <p><span>The Morgan Library</span></p></blockquote>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50818993024http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50818993024Sun, 19 May 2013 06:55:10 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/a59c4a49c2a9e41798d275ca954b9d65/tumblr_mmsv4ic8Xq1qzix81o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/50797439065/persian-warrior-with-greek-prisoners-of-war" class="tumblr_blog">centuriespast</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>Persian Warrior with Greek Prisoners of War</strong><br/><span>Cylinder seal and impression</span><br/><span>Persia, Achaemenid period (ca. 550–330 </span><span class="medium">B.C.</span><span>)</span></p> <p><span>The Morgan Library</span></p></blockquote>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50818973269http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50818973269Sun, 19 May 2013 06:54:48 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8d49f40a00d96dc3d5dbc0d1193cc57e/tumblr_mmsv8ebAKE1qzix81o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/50812381701/striding-bull-cylinder-seal-and-impression-persia" class="tumblr_blog">centuriespast</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>Striding Bull</strong><br/><span>Cylinder seal and impression</span><br/><span>Persia, Achaemenid period</span><br/><span>(ca. 550–330 </span><span class="medium">B.C.</span><span>)</span></p> <p><span>The Morgan Library</span></p></blockquote>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50818956242http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50818956242Sun, 19 May 2013 06:54:29 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c3eb805abc44821d5ab20d0a221d866f/tumblr_mmweotTucX1rruvf1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://picadorbookroom.tumblr.com/post/50581541521/has-your-to-be-read-pile-grown-out-of-control">picadorbookroom</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Has your to-be-read pile grown out of control? There is a Japanese word for that!<br/><br/>[via: <a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/tsundoku-illustrated-definition-of-a-book-lovers-problem_b70529">GalleyCat</a>]</p> </blockquote>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50818939941http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50818939941Sun, 19 May 2013 06:54:10 -0700“I am consistently drawn in, and consistently disappointed, by bio-novels about women made...http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50818922676http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50818922676Sun, 19 May 2013 06:53:51 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/cb6b9b2e8627221d7ff3ded97961a275/tumblr_mmsvap2s5x1qzix81o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/50816896859/foundation-figure-of-a-kneeling-god-holding-a-peg" class="tumblr_blog">centuriespast</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><strong><em>Foundation Figure of a Kneeling God Holding a Peg</em></strong><br/><span>Mesopotamia, period of Gudea (ca. 2144–2124 b.c.); copper</span></p> <p><span>This well-preserved copper figurine is a god, identifiable as such by his headgear, topped by several pairs of bull’s horns. He is symbolically “nailing” the foundation of the temple permanently to the earth. The sculptor vested a figure, fully realized in the round, with an inherent naturalism and delicate fluidity. Though immobilized by the act depicted, the muscular interaction of his body parts is well understood. By analogy with earlier inscribed foundation figures, the deity probably represents the personal god of Gudea, ruler of Lagash.</span></p> <p><span>The Morgan Library</span></p> <p><span> </span></p></blockquote>http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50818910870http://theredshoes.tumblr.com/post/50818910870Sun, 19 May 2013 06:53:37 -0700