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The mechanical hand Luke should have gotten at the end of ESB.

andrewberg:

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petervidani:

Aaron Staton and Rich Sommer checking out Tumblr on the set of Mad Men.

This gives me an idea for a dream blog, called “In Costume Out of Character,” that consists of nothing more than images of people in period clothes, in period settings, doing non-period things. A pre-Revolution French aristocrat sits in full dress, complete with wig, typing out love poems on her typewriter. These 1960s businessmen, suited up, hair slicked, watch a movie on a MacBook. Two 4th-century Huns sit engrossed in a game of Battleship. Who wants to help make this happen?

"You know, there are the enthusiasts for technology, and they always say — and this has been happening now for probably 150 years — they say that new technology is going to change the way people think and live. It’s going to revolutionize our live. Not just our physical lives, but our inner lives as well. I am not at all a believer in this view for the simple reason that we have bodies. We get sick. We die. We love. We suffer. We grieve. We get angry. These are the constants of human life whether you live in ancient Rome or contemporary America. I really don’t think that people have changed because of the telegraph or the radio or the cell phone or the airplane or, now, computer technology."

Paul Auster, interviewed by Jonathan Lethem in The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers (via winterlief, via booklover)