February 2012
33 posts
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Feb 26th
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“We often argue over which half of reality is true. I do not believe in objective...”
– Ellis Potter
Feb 26th
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“Randy Lenz’s obsessive compulsions include the need to be north, a fear of...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via frood)
Feb 21st
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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“Someone asked me if I was in a state of depression or despair, and I said,...”
–  Errol Morris
Feb 17th
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Feb 16th
50 notes
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Feb 16th
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Feb 14th
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I feel better when I begin to attempt to pinpoint how my mind might work. Right now my mind is working via contingencies—when I get sad I think of other reasons why I am or should be sad. I feel better for the moment.
Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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“To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is...”
– Roland Barthes (via cnephas)
Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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'What I write is different from what I say, what I...
That which links thought with language, language with the external world, and man with man has disappeared. Like the mock tennis game at the end of Antonioni’s Blow-Up, all language games are felt to have become absurd because the ball, that which guarantees communication between subject and object, is lost.
Feb 11th
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Feb 11th
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And still she cried, and still the world...
Eliot
Feb 10th
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Feb 10th
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“Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is...”
– James Joyce to Frank Budgen
Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
320 notes
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“Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime...”
– T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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“I have had a most shameful and distressing interview with dear Tom Eliot, who...”
– Virginia Woolf’s letter to a friend, February 11, 1928.
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
63 notes
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“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. Speak to me. Why do you...”
– T.S. Eliot, ‘A Game of Chess,’ The Waste Land
Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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All I want is consistency.
Feb 7th
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Feb 2nd
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“  O God, I am but an attempt at life!   Sleep falls again ere I am full awake....”
– A Hidden Life, George MacDonald (in Poetical Works vol 1)
Feb 2nd
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January 2012
73 posts
“Indeed, my ideal soon became my life; whereas, formerly, my life had consisted...”
– George Macdonald (via novicepen)
Jan 31st
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'Arrested Development' Comeback Officially a Go
Now I’m going to temper this news with the caveat that some member of the cast or crew has been saying that another season or movie was in the works every week or two since the show got cancelled in the first place. But that being said, this looks ever so slightly more solid. Said Dean Lorey on his blog: “We’re really doing this thing. Mitch Hurwitz, Jim Vallely and I are off writing the new...
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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“We two remain: yet by what miracle, searching within the tangles of my brain,...”
– ‘We Two’ (Heliodora and Other Poems)
Jan 31st
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“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going...”
–  Charles Bukowski
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
42 notes
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“The loneliness in which they dwell is almost polar; they are exiles who have...”
– Mr. O. W. Firkins on Imagists
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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“We two remain: yet by what miracle, searching within the tangles of my brain,...”
– H.D.
Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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