June 2012
8 posts
ambedo n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life
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Best Author-on-Author Insults in History
Virginia Woolf on James Joyce: [Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
Harold Bloom on J.K. Rowling: How to read ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.
H. G. Wells on George Bernard Shaw: An idiot child screaming in a hospital.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Jane Austen: Miss Austen’s novels . . . seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world.
William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway: He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner: Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
W. H. Auden on Robert Browning: I don’t think Robert Browning was very good in bed. His wife probably didn’t care for him very much. He snored and had fantasies about twelve-year-old girls.
Mark Twain on Jane Austen: Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac: That's not writing, it's typing.
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Opportunities.
I believe giving friends, families, and strangers opportunities are what makes a good person. Success should be shared and should be handled amongst those who deem responsible to sharing that success. It pains me so much witnessing someone hide an opportunity from someone else simply because they want all the credit or they want to be the only one who stands successful. If it’s a...
May 2012
76 posts
News in Britain: stamps have gone up 14 pence
News in America: cannibal eats man's face
“Your grandfather’s generation was the Nakba (catastrophe), My generation was the...”
– My father. (via lovenerdeen)
Scary Bird: A Reflection
“The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it.” – Henry David Thoreau
My summers primarily included staying up to have the nightly wind as one of my visitors on my balcony. I live on the third story of what is a plain brown apartment complex. I believe everyone who lives in this apartment building are like bees – as what we...
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Biked 20 miles today
My legs don’t scream but my palms do.
I smell like cat piss and coffee.
This is what a hot spring day reveals.
“I grew up poor, and there are a lot of people that grew up a lot poorer than I...”
– From today’s interview on All Things Considered. (via reginapolis)
thechildmonster asked: I love you.
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who...”
– Malcolm X (via maggylovesjellyfish)
“The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via phenomenaaa)
