February 2012
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Franz Kafka Rock Opera - Home Movies →
fuckyeahfranzkafka:
“I don’t know what’s wrong with me I think I’m turning into a bug I see double what I see I think I’m turning into a bug I ain’t got no self-esteem I think I’m turning into a bug Bet you fifty dollars I’m a man, I’m a scholar and I’m turning into a bug”
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January 2012
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“All right, at the height of lovemaking, you know, the very height, when she’s...”
– David Foster Wallace
December 2011
13 posts
I’ve got to tell you how I love you always I think of it on grey mornings with death in my mouth the tea is never hot enough then and the cigarette dry the maroon robe chills me I need you and look out the window at the noiseless snow At night on the dock the buses glow like clouds and I am lonely thinking of flutes I miss you always when I go to the beach the sand is wet with tears that...
Travel - Frank O'Hara
sonofapritch:
Sometimes I know I love you better than all the others I kiss it’s funny but it’s true and I wouldn’t roll from one to the next so fast if you hadn’t knocked them all down like ninepins when you roared by my bed I keep trying to race ahead and catch you at the newest station or whistle stop but you are flighty about schedules and always soar away just as leaning from my taxicab my...
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October 2011
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“A few years ago, while visiting or, rather, rummaging about Notre-Dame, the...”
– Victor Hugo, preface to The Hunchback of Notre Dame
ANArKH may be translated as fate.
Leftish: Warren Buffett, in a recent interview... →
leftish:
“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971…before...
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Murder + [Metonymy] μετωνυμία: The US High Speed... →
The US High Speed Rail Association (USHSR), which is hosting the event, has set out a highly ambitious, $600bn (£383bn) plan to build a high-speed rail network in four phases by 2030, which it illustrates on its website with an animated map.
A network of high-speed lines across the US…
WatchNeutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum performs at Occupy Wall Street
… the singer then turned his talents over to his rapt audience, saying, “I’m here to serve you. What do you want to hear?”
The rag-tag show ended with “Oh Comely,” leading to a poignant climax in which the crowds gathered around the singer erupted with passionate fervor at the line...
September 2011
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Matt Langer: First as parody, then as farce. →
langer:
Remember that episode of “The West Wing” when Sam’s ex-fiancée (“Hey is the reason you two didn’t get married because her name would have been Lisa Sherborne Seaborn?”) is doing a piece for Vanity Fair on the State of the Union and Sam calls Joey and Kenny over to explain the dials to Lisa and…
“But there is great advantage in the loneliness of suffering. What would happen...”
– Emil Cioran (from On the Heights of Despair)
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“In the years between his marriage in 1915 and the appearance of The Waste Land...”
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“The meaning of this history for anti-authoritarians today is that domination-...”
– Peter Gelderloos (The Rise of Hierarchy)
The face of fear is most definitely brown |... →
ontologicalterrorist:
Amber Ansari:
Walking around Covent Garden last Tuesday, I found myself nearly knocked over by a speeding police car with no sirens or lights down a small street. I thought it was strange: such hurry and no warning system.
As I reached Tesco in Covent Garden, I saw six heavily armed police officers surrounding some-one. I walked past and saw a small, middle aged,...
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“A few years ago, one of the great figures of contemporary biology, Ernst Mayr,...”
– Noam Chomsky, opening lines of Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance
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“Because I really love her, because I want her to be happy— No, it...”
– Marcel Proust
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“‘My little tree, my little donkey, my mother, my brother, my country, my...”
– Marcel Proust
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“‘Whether we ask for them or not, give us good things, and keep evils from...”
– Plato
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“I unpin your flowers, I lift your hair, I tear off your jewels, I reach your...”
– Marcel Proust
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“‘But if you wish me to stay, you must send the other guests away.’...”
– Marcel Proust
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“Life is like this little sweetheart. We dream of it and we love it in dreaming...”
– Marcel Proust