June 2012
4 posts
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his...
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Herman Melville // Moby Dick
Keys To Sicksess
1. Painting.
2. Gratuitous amounts of water.
3. Sweet book on Impressionists.
4. A new record.
And once the NyQuil kicks in, I’ll be sleeping in a sea of colors.
May 2012
55 posts
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology...
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Sean O’Casey // Rose and Crown
The Weather Is Above Me
Throwing back pills and bed resting. - I’m feverish.
I grant you that you can make machines do all these things you have mentioned...
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Alan Turing // Arguments from Various Disabilities
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Home
I would like to be resting with a cup of tea and reveling on the time I’ve just had, with all it’s heavy thought and good company. Alas, I will be here changing Euros and looking at sedimentary rocks all night. No complaints, just minor exhaustion.
Since childhood, I have been enchanted by the fact and the symbolism of the...
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Jerome S. Bruner // On Knowing, Essays for the Left Hand
The Right needs The Left as The Left needs The Right.
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ROAD TRIP TIME
(with DesperateLark and ChloeTheLyon)
Anonymous asked: Do you find it aberrant that so many on here confess their love for you? If it happens so much via internet, how do you keep them off of you in real life? Do you even try? Please tell me your secret. Is it your love for Star Wars? Because I love Star Wars. I don't know but that seems good enough for two people to be together.
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In Abandoned Workings 02
Have you ever even seen the Dropoff? No, but I’ve heard about it. Heard what? That you shouldn’t go there. But why? I don’t know, I never asked. I assume because it’s dangerous. No one ever talks about that. Maybe that’s because they never come back. You mean, people die? No, I mean maybe they get away. And go where? I don’t know, just away; away anywhere....
Anonymous asked: You are in my dreams.
Religion is a way of life and an attitude to the universe. It brings man into...
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J.B.S. Haldane // Possible Worlds (1927)
Yesterday's Solar Eclipse →
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As long ago as last September, the Marseilles authorities let the consul know...
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Varian Fry // -to his mother, 9/14/41
In Abandoned Workings 01
There are many thoughts left to atrophy. This is how people work. You know? With the living then the dying. It’s all really a reticulation of extinguished possibilities and averted stories. The allegory of ”if it never exhisted, it was never incomplete” is the simple isolative destiny. But it is our slight sociality that shows our allowance of certain forms. For instance,...
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Trust your words.
O mois des floraisons mois des métamorphoses
Mai qui fut sans nuage et Juin...
– O months of flowering, months of metamorphosis
May without cloud and June lacerated
I will never forget the lilacs or the roses
Nor those spring’s folds have consecrated
I will never forget the tragic illusion…”
Louis Aragon // Les Lilas Et Les Roses
Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother:...
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Friedrich Nietzsche // Human, All Too Human
Jazz
Wading around in water up to your ankles or navel, day and night, in all kinds...
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Jean Painlevé // Les Pieds Dans L’eau
Les Amours de la Pieuvre
Science is Fiction: 23 films // Jean Painlevé
So excited for this collection.