May 2013
“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the...”
– Gustave Flaubert, Letter to Madame Roger des Genettes (1861)
“Our bones
end hollow, sky blue; the flute comes untuned.”
– Erin Belieu, from “All Distance” (via the-final-sentence)
my hobbies include glaring at the green “online” dot on Facebook while thinking “no you talk to me first” for five minutes straight before realising this is not in fact a rational approach b/c the other person involved cannot actually see my glare. I think I need more sleep.
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so what do you all think of the new CocoRosie album? I’m only just listening to track 2 - it sounds a lot…smoother to me than other things I’ve heard from them so far. It’s not bad but I don’t know exactly what to think of it yet.
“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as...”
– Brian Eno (via lukewinter-inspirations)
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bastardlybrendan:
The Nestlé CEO suggests that water is not a human right and should be privatised.
I suggest he keeps his ideas to himself or gets the fuck off our planet.
“This is a company that actually goes into struggling rural areas and extracts the groundwater for their bottled water products, completely destroying the water supply of the area without any compensation. In fact,...
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“Thus as his body set him free more and more in his mind, he took to spending...”
– Samuel Beckett, Murphy
(via panoramicchrestomathy)
at that point where something really simple somehow takes hours of your time and a tremendous amount of energy. All that wasted time. So discouraging especially if you also have to do things you genuinely expect to be a lot of work; I’m starting to think I’ll never be done.
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“I have endured so long
That I have forgotten everything;
Fear and suffering...”
– Arthur Rimbaud - Song from the Highest Tower (via listlesshours)
“The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again...”
– Tom Stoppard, Arcadia (via theredshoes)
