Order of the Universe #38

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.

E.M. Forster, Howard's End (1910)

Death #8, Order of the Universe #37

We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)

Book Titles Without Context #14, Manhattan #47

Young America in Wall Street

George Francis Train (1857)

Book Titles Without Context #13, Food #17

Summa lacticiniorum

Pantaleone of Confienza (1477)

Manhattan #46, War #15

New York Seventh Regiment photographed during New York City draft riots (July 1863)

Age of Print #22, Aviation #16

Leaflet dropped from balloon flight sponsored by the New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch (June 18, 1887)

Manhattan #45, Seasons #6, Architecture #42

“The One Advantage of a New York Tenement,” Life (June 13, 1895)