February 2012
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Words - Gregory Alan Isakov
“Words mean...
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Neil Gaiman: Why Libraries Again...? →
neil-gaiman:
From: http://www.metafilter.com/112698/California-Dreamin#4183210
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“Undoubtedly libraries are a good thing. The access and training that we provide for technology isn’t offered by any other public service (largely because public services are rapidly becoming a dirty word in this gilded age of decadence and austerity), and without our services it wouldn’t be the...
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“We live in a time when many religious people feel fiercely threatened by...”
– Marilynne Robinson (via ayjay)
Yes yes yes yes yes.
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One of the saddest moments in film
came to mind as I was falling asleep last night. It’s that little montage balanced near the very end of Before Sunrise of all the places they’d visited together the night before, changed in the daylight & lonely without them.
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“On a somewhat serious note today because of a conversation the other day:
I...”
– You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face « Views from the Couch (via golden-notebook)
When I was little & boys were mean to girls & I was told it was a sign of “like”, it never made sense to me. I remember thinking, “That’s a bad way to show it. If...
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“Before the much-maligned Constantine stopped people from slaying Christians...”
– My Bloody Valentine – Maggi Dawn (via ayjay)
History! Is better than blind consumerism.
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“…The basic question before a democratic society is: ‘how ought we to live...”
– Pope John Paul II, homily in Orioles Park (via heroantihero) (emphasis mine)
I hesitate to post anything political at all, because there are a lot of things that the relationship between government & religion should not be, but this is good. I think.
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'Rasputin Was My Neighbor' And Other True Tales Of... →
knoxavenue:
The “Human Wormhole”
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Is Doctor Who Bad for Women? →
Are you ready for a long, gory post about Doctor Who & gender issues? :D Excellent, keep reading.
swordgirl:
Read this article. Here, I will give you a little quote:
Part 1: In the World of Firefly, “Companion” Means Prostitute
Consider the following story.
Far away from here, but not too far, there’s a fairly average girl living a fairly average life. She’s attractive enough, and...
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“Labor Activist Li Qiang wants you to know that the iPhone 4 in his pocket is not...”
– Labor Activist: Apple Best at Auditing Factories, Still Not Doing Enough (via ayjay)
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“If I ruled the world, or at least a publishing company, all books would contain...”
– Victoria Johnson, “The Maps We Wandered Into As Kids” (cf. my post, “Maps of Fictional Worlds”)
Yeah! Annotated as hell!
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“This is what I see and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and I see only...”
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Blaise Pascal, Pensées
I keep coming back to this passage. Pascal’s writing is beautiful and what I love most is his confession of doubt. Writing in the Age of Reason it seems like this would be a confession. Everyone else is like “this is how I know truth” and “this is how I know truth” and...
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“me: Dear eHarmony, please stop sending me emails titled “Signs...”
– Little House on the Prison Farm: Sometimes my friends give me relationship advice.
Bahahahaha!
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“The effect of beauty, therefore, is good to the degree that, through its...”
– W. H. Auden, “Making, Knowing, and Judging” (in The Dyer’s Hand)
Very important to remember.
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“People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they...”
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from Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto (via sleepflower)
I both agree & disagree with this. I agree because it’s right, it’s happened to me. I disagree because it’s not always right, it doesn’t happen every every time. I think it’s about 75% in my life. ...
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“Browsing is the opposite of “search.” Search is precise, browsing is imprecise....”
– Leon Wieseltier (via wesleyhill)
I am obliged to repost this because, libraries.
And regarding this statement:
…a bookstore…is nothing less than an institution of spiritual renewal.
I know these ladies would agree.
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writing in the dust: Wislawa Szymborska, "Under... →
My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I’m mistaken, after all. Please, don’t be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due. May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade. My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second. My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first. Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers...
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“Alcohol is a delightful social lubricant, a liquid drug that is particularly...”
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“Why Alcohol Is Good For You” - Wired Magazine
(TLDR: Some studies show drinking makes you live longer, possibly because people do it in groups.)
I wonder if alcohol is one of the things God gave us as a tangible case study on the principle of moderation. I know it’s one of the things I...
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“Hence reading is self-mastery, because the self (and its affirmations) are held...”
– So Why Read (Fiction) Any More? « Commentary Magazine (via ayjay)
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“The great mystery of memory is how it endures. The typical neural protein only...”
– The Persistence Of Memory | Wired Science | Wired.com (via ayjay)
Astounding.