February 2012
20 posts
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“The world, I started to see, was a different world, depending on what you said...”
– George Saunders, Thank You, Esther Forbes
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“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.”
– Jack Kerouac
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“Admiral” - King Creosote
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“He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a...”
– George Orwell, 1984
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“You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your...”
– Erin, A Dress a Day
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the last two minutes of Neil Finn’s...
“You know, it’s quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy,...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon does not get...”
– Dogen
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This is actually painful to listen to.
...
January 2012
33 posts
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Politics and the English Language →
George Orwell
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“Now, for the existentialist there really is no love other than one which...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
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“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that....”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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“It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absent-minded, reckless, heedless of...”
– Mary Oliver, Of Power and Time
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“Wild Goose Chase” - Dark Dark Dark
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flashover
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the moment a conversation becomes real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony, momentarily grounding the static emotional charge you’ve built up through decades of friction with the world.
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“Yes, I know that love, an absolute, ideal love, a pure and solitary...”
– Albert Camus, The Just Assassins
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“The breath
in a bird’s throat
breath of air
in the branches.
The word...”
– Hilde Domin, “Ars Longa” (translated by Agnes Stein)
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“Lonely! What do you know of it? The loneliness of teenage poets and impotent...”
– Albert Camus, Caligula
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the...”
– Alan Keightley
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