February 2012
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Feb 11th
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“V is a kind of pale, transparent pink: I think it’s called, technically, quartz...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, on being a synaesthete. Steve Silberman profiles synaesthesia in Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete. Read it. You won’t be sorry. (via jtotheizzoe)
Feb 11th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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“And when the body thickens and you get up because I dress you, because I...”
– Tomaž Šalamun, from “In the Tongues of Bells” in Woods and Chalices (via proustitute)
Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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(336): I'm not sure any amount of coworker...
Nor should it!
Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 6th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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“Do you know what I need? To escape into the mountains, surrounded by tall trees,...”
– Le’echappee (via light-essence)
Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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“When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that...”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from “I’m Working on the World” in Poems New and Collected, trans. S. Baranczak and C. Cavanagh (via proustitute)
Feb 2nd
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Feb 2nd
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January 2012
newsweek: apsies: “To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.” — Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser) This is the most beautiful...
Jan 31st
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This time last week I was blissfully ignorant
Then I was slowly dumped Wednesday through Friday of last week. Got hammered Friday night, laid frozen in one position for the majority of Saturday and Sunday. Woke up this morning at 4am, alarmless, and joined a gym. Was there and sweating by 6 and at work, full of smiles, at 8 on the dot.
Jan 30th
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““We’re all cyborgs now,” the anthropologist Amber Case said in a TED talk in...”
– The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com (via myserendipities)
Jan 30th
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"Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see...
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence (via psychotherapy)
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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“I wanted not so much to say as be said to—roaring sonar… elastic alphabet…...”
– Aaron Shurin, from “In the Dome” in Citizen (via proustitute)
Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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