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haunted hillbilly
"Dan Yack and The Confessions of Dan Yack, both by Blaise
Cendrars ...small but packed with detail, and some of the best descriptive
passages regarding drunken-ness ever. Not new, but the writing is timeless.
also, Fernando Pessoa- The Book of Disquiet, set in Lisbon, reads kind of
like Joyce...praise to obscurity,failure,initelligence,difficulty and
silence."
via vz
"He hired Richard Meier as an adviser, and they selected venerable figures such as Graves, Cobb, Richard Rogers, and Philip Johnson, along with younger celebrity architects—Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Shigeru Ban, and Eric Owen Moss—to design houses. They also chose several architects who are less well known to the general public but have substantial reputations in the academic world—people like Stan Allen, Lindy Roy, Winy Maas, Jesse Reiser, Nanako Umemoto, and the sisters Gisue and Mojgan Hariri. This project may be the closest such architects will ever come to designing a freestanding house."