"Du lebst und tust mir nichts."
"Die Wiederbelebung der damonischen Antike vollzjeht sich dabei, wie wir sahen, durch eine Art polarer Funktion des einfuhlenden Bildgedachtnisses. Wir sind im Zeitalter des Faust, wo sich der moderne Wissenschaftler—zwischen magischer Praktik und kosmologischer Mathematik—den Denkraum der Besonnenheit zwischen sich und dem Objekt zu erringen versuchte." Aby Warburg, Gesammelte Schriften, II:534, quoted in Gombrich, Aby Warburg.
I'm grateful to Professor W.F. Blisset for this information.
"warum das Schicksal den schopferischen Menschen in die Region der ewigen Unruhe verweist, ihm uberlassend ob er seine Bildung im Inferno, Purgatorio oder Paradiso findet." Aby Warburg, in Schlussubung, Notebook 1927—28, pp. 68—69, quoted in Gombrich, Aby Warburg.
Aby Warburg, Le rituel du serpent: recit d'un voyage en pays pueblo, introduction by Joseph Leo Koerner, text by Fritz Saxl and de Benedetta Cestelli Guidi, trans. Sibylle Muller, Philip Guiton and Diane H. Bodart (Paris: Macula, 2003).
"Die Bilder und Worte sollen fur die Nachkommenden eine Hilfe sein bei dem Versuch der Selbstbesinnung zur Abwehr der Tragik der Gespanntheit zwischen triebhafter Magie und auseinandersetzender Logik. Die Konfession eines (unheilbaren) Schizoiden, den Seelenartz^n ins Archivgegeben."Aby Warburg, Note 7, quoted in Gombrich, Aby Warburg.
"Annahme des Kunstwerkes als etwas in Richtung auf den Zuschauer feindlich Bewegtes." Aby Warburg, in Fragmente (27 August, 1890).
the library as island
See William V. Harris, Ancient Literacy (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, i989).
W. Jaeger, Aristotle, trans. R. Robinson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948).
Plato, "Phaedrus," trans. R. Hackforth, in The Collected Dialogues (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961).
"They read your wilclass="underline" they choose it to be theirs: they cherish it. They read it without cease and what they read never passes away. For it is your own unchanging purpose that they read, choosing to make it their own and cherishing it for themselves." Saint Augustine, Confessions, translated by and with an introduction by
R.S. Pine-Coffin (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1961); Book XIII:i5.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maximen undReflexionen, no. 838 in Goethes Werke, ed. Hans Joachim Schrimpf (Munich: Verlag C.H. Beck, 1981); Vol. XII.
Ecclesiastes i2:i2.
Adolfo Bioy Casares, "Libros y amistad," in La otra aventura (Buenos Aires: Galerna, 1968).
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (London: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Nicholas de Cusa, "De docta ignorantia," in Selected Spiritual Writings, translated and introduced by H. Lawrence Bond (New York: Paulist Press, 2005).
Julie Flaherty, "New Testament on a Chip," in The New York Times (New York, 23 June, 2003).
Announced on the BBC evening news, 26 May, 2003.
The Venerable Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, Book II, chapter XIII, in OperaHistorica, Vol. I, ed. J.E. King (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd, 1971).
Bill Gates, The Road Ahead (New York: Penguin, 1996).
Walter Benjamin, Schriften, edited by and with an introduction by Hannah Arendt (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1955).
The International Herald Tribune (Paris, 18 January, 1999).
Will Eisner, interview on France Info Radio, broadcast 19 December, 2004.
Paul Duguid, "PG Tips," in The Times Literary Supplement (London, 11 June, 2004).
Garrick Mallery, Picture Writing of the American Indians (Washington, i893).
"Mucho mas que libros," Semana (Bogota, 4 June, 2001).
Personal interview, Bogota, 25 May, 2001.
Philip Friedman, Roads to Extinction: Essays on the Holocaust, ed. Ada June Friedman (New York and Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1980).
the library as survival
Tuvia Borzykowski, Ben kirot noflim, trans. Mosheh Basok (Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibbuts ha-Meuhad, 1964).
William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History ofNazJ Germany (New York: Simon and Schuster, i960).
Quoted in Friedman, "The Fate of the Jewish Book," in Roads to Extinction.
Donald E. Collins and Herbert P. Rothfeder, "The Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg and the Looting of Jewish and Masonic Libraries During World War II," in Journal of Library History 18,
1983.
Founded by the exiled son-in-law of Samuel Fischer, the celebrated German publisher.
Quoted in Friedman, "The Fate of the Jewish Book," in Roads to Extinction.
Nili Keren, "The Family Camp" in Anatomy ofthe Auschwitz Death Camp, ed. Yisrael Gutman and Michael Birnbaum (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, i994), quoted in David Shavit, Hunger for the Printed Word: Books and Libraries in the Jewish Ghettos ofNazJ-OccupiedEurope (Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland & Co., 1997).
261 Shavit, Hunger for the Printed Word.
"Mensh, oyf tsu shraybn geshikhte darf men hobn a kop un nisht keyn tukhes," quoted in Yitzhak Zuckerman, "Antek," in A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, trans. and ed. Barbara Harshav (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993).
Quoted in Shavit, Hunger for the Printed Word.
Deborah Dwork, Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991).
Moshe Kligsberg, "Dieyidisheyugent-bavegnung in Polyn tsvishn beyde vel-milkhumes (a sotsyologishe shtudie)," in Studies in Polish Jewry 1919-1939, ed. Joshua A. Fishman (New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 1974).
Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter (London: Heinemann, 1948).
Diary of Johann Paul Kremer (entry for 2 September, 1942), ed. Kazimierz Smolen, in KL Auschwitz^ seen by the SS, second edition (O'swiefim, 1978), quoted in Martin Gilbert, The Holocaust (London: William Collins, i986).
Martin Buber, Die Erz^hlungen der Chassidim (Frankfurt am Main: Manesse Verlag, 1949).
Victor Hugo, Inferi: La legende des siecles (Paris, 1883).
Romain Gary, La danse de Genghis Cohn (Paris: Gallimard, 1967).
Nunca Mas: A Report by Argentina's National Commission on Disappeared People (London and Boston: Faber & Faber in association with Index on Censorship, 1986).
Amin Maalouf, Les croisades vues par les Arabes (Paris: Editions Jean-Claude Lattes, 1983).
Carole Hillenbrand, The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2000).
Dante, Inferno, XXXIV, 129—132.
Quoted in Gilbert, The Holocaust.