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loretta:
Author Hari Kunzru’s dystopian Memory Palace is brought to life at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

It’s London, some indeterminate time in the future. Capitalism has broken down, memory has disintegrated, words have lost their meaning and the internet is a relic of the past. The city is run by the Lords Of The Thing, the towering Red Man metal sculpture in the east has become a new site of worship, books are banned and few people remember the old days. ‘We call ourselves Memorialists,’ says one man who does, at least partially. ‘We are the ones in this ruined place who can recite the names of the dead.’

At the V&A, 16th June – 20th October, this dystopic view of the capital, spawned by the imagination of author Hari Kunzru, is on display in an eerie, three-dimensional life.

http://www.bookpatrol.net/2013/06/memory-palace-a-walk-through-hari-kunzrus-new-novella.html

dodrill:
Nice post Loretta - I'm sure in all the ages of war mankind has been through and the burning of books and the loss of knowledge - this is how it felt for the survivors

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life." - Oscar Wilde

I found this one of interest too

Holy infographics: the bible visualised

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/gallery/2013/sep/05/holy-infographics-bible-visualised#/?picture=416571797&index=0

microlink:
Hi Haley. That is so cool. I will take some time to study this. Thanks.

cjwood:
thanks for posting that link hayley.  it is very interesting and offers another tool in studying the Scriptures.

claudia

lilitalienboi16:
Very cool, thanks for sharing guys!

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