July 2012
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David Bowie — “Modern Love.”
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“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals...”
– Wendell Berry (via kateoplis)
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AUSTIN KLEON: A bag of nouns →
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In my favorite writing book, What It Is, Lynda Barry explains how to make a “Word Bag”—a word bag is basically just a bunch of nouns that you write down and stuff in a bag and pull out randomly when you need to begin a piece of writing and you’re not sure where to start. (Here’s Lynda, taking you through the exercise.)
Turns out, this is pretty much how Ray Bradbury got...
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Echoes: “Ye sober beings, who feel yourselves... →
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“Ye sober beings, who feel yourselves armed against passion and fantasy and would gladly make a pride and an ornament out of your emptiness, ye call yourselves realists, and give to understand that the world is actually constituted as it appears to you: before you alone reality stands unveiled, and ye yourselves would perhaps be the best part of it—oh, ye dear images of Sais! But...
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“Shuy has become famous in his discipline for some of the field’s finest...”
– Jack Hitt, “Words on Trial,” in the July 23rd issue of the New Yorker.
This article made me wish I had gone in for a PhD in linguistics instead of literature & creative writing. After I finish this degree, I can just immediately go back to school, right?
(via ecantwell)
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“I found a universal rule which appears to govern human actions or words more...”
– Baldassare Castiglione (via howtotalktogirlsatparties)
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De La Soul — “Keepin’ the...
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Sharing Poetry: C.P. Cavafy, "The God Abandons... →
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When suddenly, at midnight, you hear an invisible procession going by with exquisite music, voices, don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive—don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a dream, your...
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“He considered books as rather like birds and it saddened him to see them caged...”
– Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees (via mythologyofblue)
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“Have had to shoot people but never anyone I knew and loved for eleven years. Nor...”
– Ernest Hemingway shoots his cat (via explore-blog)
I wish that I could conjure up such a great character detail so easily. I also wish I liked cats.
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“I have always thought that the absence of god liberated us from an unbearable...”
– from Andrés Neuman’s haunting story, “Mother Backwards,” in Work in Progress. (Originally published in The Coffin Factory.)
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“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except...”
– Antonin Artaud (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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The Hipster Libertarian: iSideWith.com: The... →
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I noticed results from a political quiz at iSideWith.com floating around the libertarian and politics tags here on tumblr, so of course I betook myself to complete the quiz.
My results? 99% Gary Johnson; 98% Ron Paul.
This quiz is so screwed up.
First of all, I’m not that identical with…
Same with me, actually, but that’s why taking online quizzes to...
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“If you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”
– Carl Jung
via leda-swanson (via gstun)
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Nineteen popular names for boys, 2011.
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southtwelfth:
All selected from the Social Security Administration’s list of the 1,000 most popular names for baby boys in 2011, in order of their popularity:
4. Jayden
9. Aiden
37. Brayden
70. Ayden
90. Hayden
105. Kayden
107. Aidan
119. Kaden
136. Caden
186. Jaiden
259. Braden
535. Raiden
592. Jaydon
636. Aidyn
660. Aydin
682. Aydan
873. Jaidyn
908. Jaydon
961....
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FAQ: THE “SNAKE FIGHT” PORTION OF YOUR THESIS... →
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By: Luke Burns, McSweeney’s
Q: Do I have to kill the snake? A: University guidelines state that you have to “defeat” the snake. There are many ways to accomplish this. Lots of students choose to wrestle the snake. Some construct decoys and elaborate traps to confuse and then ensnare the snake. One student brought a flute and played a song to lull the snake to sleep. Then...
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Echo and the Bunnymen — “Crystal...
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chris brown's magisterial history of the air raid. →
This essay might be a bit impenetrable for beginners to football, but for Xs-and-Os devotees, you really can’t beat Brown’s work here. The Air Raid is the dominant offensive philosophy of this era of college football, and it shows that it’s also one of Brown’s real passions. He’s been writing on the subject since I started reading him in 2008, and this really feels...
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Prince — “When Doves Cry.”
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little sister, the fates are calling on you.
How often do you get to hear the sound of history being made? Some people go out of their way to sound like they’re capturing a moment. And occasionally that works. The famous opening line of Straight Outta Compton—You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge—was an opening salvo from a gaggle of college kids who wanted nothing more than to sound like the baddest...
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“The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself...”
– Lord Chesterfield (via putthison)
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tzachquiel-deactivated20121023 asked: Walter I love you and you're my very favorite person and this isn't a question but I don't care
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“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn’t squeak.”
– Tom Robbins (via badliverandabrokenheart)
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