February 2012
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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)
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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)
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(336): I'm not sure any amount of coworker...
Nor should it!
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“Do you know what I need? To escape into the mountains, surrounded by tall trees,...”
– Le’echappee (via light-essence)
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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)
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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.”
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Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
This is the most beautiful...
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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.
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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)
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"Butterflies can't see their wings. They can't see...
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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)
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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)
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