An outsider with a moral compass that would help guide future writers and the world over - "๐ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต, ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ. ๐๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ช๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ซ๐ถ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต. ๐๐ต ๐ต๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ."
I first read Graham Greene when I was 15. I would take British literature and follow him everywhere - from ๐ฝ๐ง๐๐๐๐ฉ๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐ค๐๐ to the whiskey priest through Mexico in his most critically-acclaimed ๐๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ฌ๐๐ง ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ค๐ง๐ฎ, four weeks in Liberia in ๐ ๐ค๐ช๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ฎ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ช๐ฉ ๐๐๐ฅ๐จ, a failing marriage in Sierra Leone in ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ง๐ฉ ๐ค๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ง, ๐๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ค๐ง๐๐ง๐ฎ ๐พ๐ค๐ฃ๐จ๐ช๐ก in Argentina, then South Africa in ๐๐๐ ๐๐ช๐ข๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐๐ฉ๐ค๐ง, ๐๐ช๐ง ๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฃ๐, and the story I love most in WWII London, ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐ง. But it was reading ๐๐๐ ๐๐ช๐๐๐ฉ ๐ผ๐ข๐๐ง๐๐๐๐ฃ, set in 1950s Vietnam, that started it all for me.
โ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฉ๐จ ๐๐จ ๐ ๐ง๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข. ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ฎ, ๐๐ฉ ๐๐จ ๐ค๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ ๐๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ค๐ก๐๐๐ง.โ While studying architecture in Pomona, Burden switched to arts and would spend the rest of his life creating it in Los Angeles.
"๐๐ตโ๐ด ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฑ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต..โ Inspired by Matisse and the Greek tragedies, Rothko's "multiforms" seem deceptively simple at first glance, but no other painter has moved more people to tears, so much so that museums devote entire walls, if not entire rooms, to his work.
"๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ." The reason why I travel? It's because I want to see the world as I have read it. This is my tribute to Orhan Pamuk, his books, and his city.
It's amazing to think that Rodia's Watts Towers survived the 1933 and subsequent earthquakes, plans for demolition, a 10,000-pound load test, and the infamous riots that damaged 288 other buildings in Watts. With only the most rudimentary tools, it remains the largest structure built by one man alone.
Arrested and almost executed for reading Hegel and being a member of the Petrashevsky Circle, a literary group that opposed the Tsar, Dostoyevsky would spend four years in a labor camp. The execution was stayed, and after his release, he wrote ๐พ๐ง๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ช๐ฃ๐๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ฃ๐ฉ, and his last and most existential, ๐๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ง๐ค๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐จ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ข๐๐ฏ๐ค๐ซ.
