May 2012
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“The grammar and syntax of genetics transcend individual species.”
– Philip Ball
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“Altruism toward strangers is a behavior not supported by natural selection.”
– Mayr
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“When the selective advantage of a skeleton developed among the ancestors of the...”
– Ernst Mayr
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“Outer space, poems’ rights, and the ocean depths
are the three final...”
– John F. Buckley
April 2012
18 posts
What people think Old English is: Thou art indeed a fine lad, prithee yonder! Wherefore arest mine pantalones?
What it actually is: Syððan ǽrest wearð feasceaft funden, hé þæs frófre gebád, wéox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þáh, oð þæt him ǽghwylc ymbsittendra ofer hron-ráde hýran scolde, gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs gód cyning!
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Failing and Flying (Jack Gilbert)
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It's the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so...
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KEEPING QUIETLY
watchful through the blindfold
of sevenfold darkness —
the doctrine of Manifest Density:
1. bright darkness
2. cloaked darkness
3. clotted darkness
4. the dark gong
5. the humming dark engine
6. the plush cinema
7. the disco bat-cave womb
Elaine Equi
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“After years and years, it’s finally dawned on us.
Art is not an object,...”
– Elaine Equi, “On Hold”
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“If, in the 1950s, it was the home that was the ideal focus for women’s labour...”
– Rosalind Gill
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Bechdel Test →
Youtube comment or ee cummings? →
phoebro:
New favorite game!
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's list of things to worry... →
“Like the clear surrounding fluid in the lava lamp, discourses help shape our...”
– Lynn Phillips
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the vanishing mind in colombia →
A typical day of air traffic: Each dot represents... →
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“I have made it an observation since our absence, that we are much fonder of the...”
– Heloise
“It is the fashion nowadays to presume that an act is more or less outside the...”
– John Stoltenberg
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“At 7:35 A.M, you lay your tired body on mine
before peeling off, like a slow...”
– Megan Falley, “What the Hour Hand Said to the Minute Hand” (via fleurishes)
March 2012
13 posts
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“Even if we put aside the question of fetal personhood and assume that a fetus...”
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Jill Filipovic, Offensive Feminism: The conservative gender norms that perpetuate rape culture, and how feminists can fight back, in Yes Means Yes
(via fem-blog)
Just a thought
theresaplastictree:
if Fred & George had the map for years, how did they not notice that there was a man named Peter sleeping in Ron’s bed every night.
or did they just not want to ask or
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February 2012
5 posts
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The hours in between sleeps →
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“I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford.”
– Cindy Crawford
“You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin’...”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
“There’s a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.”
– Roberto Bolaño (via themostballerdeathofalltime)
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January 2012
6 posts
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“My whole life became, like, divided… into kissing and not-kissing.”
– Angela Jayce