January 2012
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime. IV A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one. V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of...
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“Who of us knows all the words of the language he speaks and the full meaning of...”
– Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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“This entire study rests on the postulate that the unanimous feelings of...”
– Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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“I was a loner as a child, and for me everything was a strange symbol, the...”
– Italo Calvino, “Love Far from Home”, Numbers in the Dark
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“?למה אנחנו צריכים לגור בטבע”
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“For society, that unique source of all that is sacred, is not satisfied to move...”
– Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
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“I’m respecting you enough here to give you what I believe is the straight...”
– David Foster Wallace on Politics on the English Language and delicate conversations he has had with his students that I will maybe have to have eventually this is complicated oh my
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Dec 29th
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“Pa shaves every day now because my mother is a fish.”
– Vardaman, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Dec 26th
“Let’s begin this way, then: there is a cell, and this cell is a...”
– Italo Calvino, “Mitosis”, t zero
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“In a hidden point in ourselves the double series of orders from the past is...”
– Italo Calvino, “Meiosis”, t zero
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“I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime....”
– Ray Bradbury (via qu4ntity)
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“This is the highest form of musicality in the sphere of thought.”
– Albert Einstein, on Neils Bohr’s work with quantum theory
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“We only write about two feelings: one is the first day of summer when you and...”
– The Drums
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“[T]he Cowpocalypse finally arrives at 7:20 pm on September 7. At that...”
– Jason Tanz, The Curse of Cow Clicker, Wired Magazine Jan 2012
Dec 20th
ana-ng: Fuck. Growing up is awesome. We’ve been lied to, kids. Ana is a wise one.
Dec 16th
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“I could scarcely sleep for excitement the night after seeing the periodic...”
– Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memoirs of a Chemical Boyhood
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“I had to stop myself at this point, for I was becoming obsessed, going overboard...”
– Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memoirs of a Chemical Boyhood
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“The Puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so. For when...”
– Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 123
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