December 2009
“Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various...”
– Milan Kundera (via princesskaye) (via quote-book) (via brasilpop) (via motels)
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SXE malaya
thisisme: gemux like sxe gemux ke
pilot: yeah
pilot: dah la gemuk
pilot: pastu bajet sxe
pilot: sigh
pilot: gemuxxxx
pilot: xgemukx
pilot: camtu ah
thisisme: XgX ?
pilot: kalau tembam ?
pilot: Xterm bumpX
pilot: mmg band SXE gile
pilot: second combat mesti bawak gi tour
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WatchNotes & Neurons, a program from the World Science Festival 2009, featuring Bobby McFerrin. More videos can be found from the link given. I think I’m having an awesome field day with this to be copied into CheQyon (hello instant Internet Download Manager!). I’ve turned into such a dedicated geek.
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Pillow by Li-Young Lee
There's nothing I can't find under there.
Voices in the trees, the missing pages
of the sea.
Everything but sleep.
And night is a river bridging
the speaking and the listening banks,
a fortress, undefended and inviolate.
There's nothing that won't fit under it:
fountains clogged with mud and leaves,
the houses of my childhood.
And night begins when my mother's fingers
let go of the...
“make me a part of your book of everything.”
– RF & lili de la mora
the totality of causes
Chang: In “Black Petal,” you write of your brother’s absence, “He died too young to learn his name. / Now he answers to Vacant Boat, / Burning Wing, My Black Petal.” Do you think that absence has a presence, too?
Li-Young Lee: I love that question. I’ve been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech—if not all human...
the totality of causes
Chang: I read in an interview that you stopped using the word “God” and started using the word “Universe.”
Li-Young Lee: When I look at my shoe—or this cup, or this couch, or this jacket—if I think about how these things came to be, I’d have to account for the infinite net of circumstances, causes, and conditions that make each thing. We might as well say that each...
