Inviting Culture
A collection of varied treateses concerning the life and times, work and leisures, of Philipp Geisler, Esq., predominantly re. the use for creative purposes of data as it is made available for the common public by our most charitable institutions, esp. those pertaining to the higher cultural realms.
Aimer, c'est agir.
V. Hugo
OCTAVO1 is a theme for Hugo2 inspired by a blog post by Clive Thompson, Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens3 – the title speaks for itself, esp. should you be reading this on a smartphone.
The title of this very post, though, reflects the development history of this theme. First created in December 2015 for the Kirby CMS, I decided recently to switch to a fully static system.
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For it is not we who know, but it is primarily a certain state within us that knows.
H. v. Kleist
When I find myself at loss for words, I often remember an essay I had read in school, Ueber die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden (On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking)1 by Heinrich von Kleist.
Looking it up last night on the internet, I could find the full text in various places all right, but always in typography that rendered it close to unreadable.2
As the work is in the public domain, I decided to reproduce it here in full.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. When this sensation is lacking—as when one is in prison, or ill, or stupid, or when living has become a habit—one might as well be dead.
Cesare Pavese
OCTAVO1 is a theme for the Kirby CMS, originally inspired by a blog post by Clive Thompson, Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens2.
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Si habet aliquod tanquam pabulum studii, & doctrine stiosa senectute nihil est jucundius.
Cic.
WE confess the Follies of Youth without a Blush ; not so, those of Age. However keep me a little in countenance by considering, that Age wants Amusement more, tho’ it can justify them less, than the preceding periods of life. How you may relish the Pastime here sent you, I know not. It is miscellaneous in its Nature, somewhat licentious in its Conduct; and, perhaps, not over important, and more suitable to my season of life.
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