February 2012
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“Cheshire-Puss…would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?”
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– Alice in Wonderland
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January 2012
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[…] and I understood why the angelic doctor said that amor est magis cognitivus quam cognitio, that we know things better through love than through knowledge.
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
We create complex webs of information and people who support us, and yet they are so fleeting, so tenuous. Time speeds up and then it begins to shrink. Years pass by in minutes. Life becomes that strange experience in which you’re zooming along a freeway and suddenly realize that you haven’t paid any attention to driving for the last fifteen minutes, yet you’re still alive and didn’t crash. The...
The distance I felt came not from country or people; it came from within me. I am as distant from myself as a hawk from the moon.
JAMES WELCH, Winter in the Blood
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I think there are two different kinds of memory, and only one kind gets worse as I get older: the kind where, by an effort of will, you can reconstruct your first car or your serial number or the name and figure of your high school physics teacher—a Mr. Holm, in a gray suit, a bearded guy, skinny, about thirty. The other kind doesn’t worsen; if anything it grows more intense. The sleepwalking...
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December 2011
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WatchThis Is Funny, You Should Watch It of the Day: Funny or Die’s legendary Drunk History returns with a very special inebriated recitation of “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” starring Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, and Jim Carrey as St. Nicholas :: thedailywhat : [funnyordie.]
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November 2011
34 posts
Maud Miller
Maud Muller, on a summer’s day, Raked the meadow sweet with hay. Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of simple beauty and rustic health. Singing, she wrought, and her merry glee The mock-bird echoed from his tree. But when she glanced to the far-off town, White from its hill-slope looking down, The sweet song died, and a vague unrest ...
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“I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these...”
– Sylvia Plath (via loveyourchaos)
