katexic, Author at Katexic Clippings (ARCHIVE)

“What we can learn about the world and ourselves from foreign words that have no equivalent in English”

The Magic of “Untranslatable” Words – Scientific American

Desdemona, In Her Own Words

“A stop-motion animation of Desdemona from Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello. Her words from the play have been separated out and rearranged to give her new lines.”

Existentialism

source

Van Gogh on Dark Water

“In this brief video, artist Garip Ay creates an interpretation of Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ painting using a paper marbling technique—or more specifically, the Turkish method called ebru.”

The Emily Dickinson Lexicon

The Emily Dickinson Lexicon is a dictionary of alphabetized headword entries for all of the words in Emily Dickinson’s collected poems (Johnson 1955 and Franklin 1998 editions).

The Master in the Art of Living…

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.”

—L.P. Jacks (often misattributed to François-René de Chateaubriand)
—from Education Through Recreation