January 2012
25 posts
“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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the word of the year is discipline
“But it’s never really about the craft. I mean, craft’s nice, it’s better there...”
– Stephen Graham Jones
December 2011
36 posts
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people you should follow:
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“So we turn back through the forest, walk among trees with long blue needles....”
– Tomas Tranströmer, from “Molokai” in The Great Enigma, trans. Robin Fulton
“So in hard times, let the artists damn the stress and dream up the world we...”
– Lauren Gunderson
word of the day
colleenlouise:
dolorifuge : a thing that cures grief
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“Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies; I came to...”
– Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
mhmdsobhy:
Leila Au Pays Du Caroussel, Variation...
colleenlouise:
neko case : hold on, hold...
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“When you teach a child that a bird is named ‘bird,’ the child will never see the...”
– Krishnamurti
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