February 2012
16 posts
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and...”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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the laughing heart - bukowski
your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will...
creation: violence, flesh and body fluids
I wrote this for fun a couple years ago. Brief, not very academic look at cosmogenies from different mythologies.
Creation myths around the world contain so many instances of flesh or bodily fluids being used in the formation of the world. It’s interesting that so many cultures connect the earth, nature and the heavens with the body at such a fundamental level. Some of the images in the texts are...
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of...”
– Plato (via lucifelle)
“Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you...”
– Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
January 2012
3 posts
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“‘This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
– In 1944 a children’s book club sent a volume about penguins to a 10-year-old girl, enclosing a card seeking her opinion.
She wrote, “This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
American diplomat Hugh Gibson called it the finest piece of literary criticism he had ever...
December 2011
6 posts
unveiledsilence asked: How did you make your book of tea ? I came across your picture of it and I want to do the same thing. :)
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November 2011
7 posts
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86 year old makes a rage comic. It's beautiful. →
October 2011
8 posts
“The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a...”
– José Ortega y Gasset - new favourite philosopher I’ve never read.
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“Longing, we say, because desire is full
of endless distances.”
– Robert Hass, from “Meditation at Lagunitas” (via proustitute)
“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a...”
– Horace Walpole (via curitas)
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September 2011
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July 2011
3 posts
“The future you have tomorrow won’t be the same future you had yesterday.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Rant (via beatsbeatsbeatsbeats)
“I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvass for it, and...”
– Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert, 27 November-3 December 1854 (via proustitute)
June 2011
7 posts
“One of the things I learned is that I had to bend or else break. And I also...”
– Raymond Carver, Fires (via distantheartbeats)
“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at...”
– Neil Gaiman
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the...”
– Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
(reading instead of studying for finals)
