January 2012
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Composing the best identity for myself by grieving over the amount of dust in the room. Shorts, over-sized headband, clumsy vacuum maneuver, Tom Mcrae playlist, and dust bunnies dust dust bunnies. One more bookshelf to go.
#nowreading
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Einstein & Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc by Arthur I. Miller
Horrible...
“What is behind the curtain is only interesting if the curtain can be pulled...”
– The Siren Call of Logical Positivism (via scipsy)
A word that does not exist in the English...
shiverswithwanting:
Ya’aburnee Arabic – Both morbid and beautiful at once, this incantatory word means “You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
“And wait; surely we are waiting also.”
– Qur’an 11:122, translated by M. H. Shakir (via touba)
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via thelittlephilosopher)
“A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.”
– Lana Turner (via rulesformyunbornson)
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fuckyeahreading!: On Why I Like To Read. →
fuckyeahreading:
…. Books were more fun and interesting than people to me too at first. But, well, people wrote books. So the magic behind those lies in all of us. You said people run and books stay. But books stay because you own them. I could never own a person, and there’s a charm in that.
… Books have wonderful surprises, but they are archived. I’m not suggesting you go bungee...
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“تعال عش في قلبي ولا تدفع الايجار
Come, live in my heart, and pay no rent.”
– Arabic proverb (via seinedoll)
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young luggage: the fear of revealing self
I rained and rattled the roof but no one will let me in. Come decorated in rusted ornaments, vacated from the clothes and I will not let myself in. I’ve been wearing but it fit less like a paper doll and more like wearing myself thin. What words can sell, I cannot sell it. What voices can pray for, I cannot influence it. 1990: stop the river flow as it cried for living. 2012: open up the...
“Start by leaving home. It’s not where the heart is,
but where the hard edge is....”
– weisse wiese: how to fall in love, by susan elbe
(via clavicola)
“If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story.”
– Neal Caffrey, White Collar (3.11 Checkmate)
human-voices:
Given the increasingly limited resources on the planet, Please write a 500 word essay justifying your right to exist.
“I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going....”
– Etta James, in her autobiography, Rage To Survive (RIP). Thank you, Austin. (via crashinglybeautiful)
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TOKYO JIHEN TO DISBAND IN FEBRUARY.
THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH MY LIFE JUST BECAUSE I GOT INTO THE OTHER SIDE OF 21 ALL MY FAVOURITE BANDS SINCE MY TEEN YEARS ARE DISBANDING FIRST THURSDAY, AND THE FALLING RUT OF INTERPOL, AND NOW… TOKYO JIHEN TOKYO JIHEN TOKYO JIHEN WHY AND MY FRIEND GOT TO GO TO THEIR SHOW LAST YEAR I SHOULD’VE JUMPED INTO HIS LUGGAGE AND SNEAK I I WHUT MAYBE I SHOULD STOP BEING INTENSE FANS OF A...
“I might feel, and I do feel, that in order to write poetry seriously one must...”
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Dan Beachy-Quick, “A January Notebook”, Evening Will Come, April 2011 (with thanks to leopoldgursky)
