April 2012
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Walter Agonistes.
This is a personal blog of a sort, but it’s almost never this sort of personal blog. I’d write about something else, but I can’t think of something else.
I got angry yesterday. Nothing violent, of course, just a verbal fusillade launched at a friend of mine after she explained, with undue reverence, the Five Love Languages—which, like most theories about human behavior,...
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“And I won’t tell you where it is, so why do I tell you
anything? Because you...”
– Adrienne Rich, from “What Kind of Times are These”
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“Great men of style develop a sense of how to attune their appearance by learning...”
– Bruce Boyer (via putthison)
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Paul F. Tompkins: Hubris!: A BUNCH OF TWEETS IS... →
paulftompkins:
Hear ye hear ye. On April 1st, starting at 9pm PST, I will live-tweet the season premiere of Game of Thrones on HBO. Last week, I watched the entire first season in two days. Prior to that, I’d seen only the first episode when it premiered last year, not knowing how I felt about what I was…
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“Between skin and skin, there is only light.”
– John Fowles, The Magus (via semperaugustus)
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“Dear Sir:
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude,...”
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My new favorite job application letter, from 1934. He ended up winning an Oscar for screenwriting!
(via Letters of Note)
We like words too.
(via good)
This is SO WONDERFUL
(via bookwormbreakfast)
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Megan Amram: Shakespearean Spam →
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URGENT REQUEST FROM MOOR OF VENICE
O Hello !
I am a Moorish prince ! It is with heart full of hope &tragedye that I explain this tragedye.
my wife Desideminna was killed with a stab &and I tragically cannotget in her will which left me many of her possessions: moneyes, whitescarves, whiches bramble. Please help me live wi/out the brambles by donating your...
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“Why? You might ask. How can so many people go about their daily lives in such a...”
– Excerpt from Haruki Murakami’s Catalunya International Prize acceptance speech from June 2011. Read the full speech on Senrinomichi.com. (via murakamistuff)
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An Alphabetized List of 1,027 of the Prettiest... →
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‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’ →
A story on black conservatism—a more vibrant and meaningful idea than you might at first acknowledge—that is, despite its length, absolutely essential reading.
