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Winter quarter in the bookstacks

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Apologies for a silent winter quarter– the graffiti project tends to slide towards hibernation in the winter in general (I took no pictures at all in winter ’09), and it was compounded this year by heaps of stress and moving. Fear not, though, I still went to the stacks weekly, so let’s catch up on [...]

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Fall graffiti and preview of coming analysis

Saturday, November 6, 2010

It’s taken some time, but graffiti is creeping back onto the bookstack walls in the Regenstein Library. Most notable is the wall of poetry, where “To Delmore Schwartz” by Robert Lowell has been joined by an anonymous quote: Rejoice! O Man For your achievements are great and number as the stars (read both full size) [...]

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Emptiness, perceived reality, and actual reality in the Reg

Friday, February 12, 2010

This week in the stacks, I stumbled across two pieces of Chinese graffiti different from those I’d encountered previously. While most Chinese graffiti has been written horizontally, these pieces gave the impression of being written vertically, in neat rows. Peter Behr, a UofC alum, identified the first piece as a notable passage from Dream of [...]

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The persistence of poetry

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

More additions have come to the T.S. Eliot piece on the 5th floor that got vicious a few weeks ago. After uploading the photos from today, I realized that the evolution of this piece isn’t what I initially thought. If you compare the original version of the poem and the one I thought Facilities had [...]

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T.S. Eliot and his detractors

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

It’s been a rough couple weeks for T.S. Eliot in the Regenstein Library stacks. To recap: on June 9th, I discovered the first stanza of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” on a wall, boldly written in sharpie. By July 1st, someone felt compelled to express how unimpressed they were. And so [...]

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