May 2013
19 posts
“It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is...”
– John Muir (1838-1914)
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“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow...”
– Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
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What in water did Bloom, waterlover, drawer of...
Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator’s projection: its umplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8,000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its units: the variability of states of...
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Love in the Time of Neuroscience
Eye contact is a lover’s magic.
Newborns and lovers have this in common – more than any other factor, eye contact is the main conduit for emotional connection. When those in love speak of the “entrancing gaze” of their lover, it’s not just a romantic notion—it’s a biological reality. Eye contact and a smile is an especially potent combination.
Only voice interaction comes anywhere close to...
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A revelation trembled just beyond the threshold of her understanding
Generative drawings by Eno Henze Title: Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
“[…] if the book was one of travels, I found myself the traveller. New lands,...”
– from Phantastes by George MacDonald (1905). (via can-cancancelled)
“I’m gonna find the east by sailing west.”
– Andrew Dost
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April 2013
28 posts
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Bells
When I can’t find the word I’m looking for Or I reach into the drawer with four tries But nothing sticks There’s no telling why I opened it I try but I just forget
What there once was, I have not forgotten What there once was, it won’t leave me alone The synapses still fire and direct my thoughts They just seem tired of hunting for homes And I’m not brave...
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“Expressions such as “a world in pieces” or “a world turned...”
– Levinas, Existence and Existents
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What would it be to crawl unburdened toward death?...
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“The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction,...”
– Wallace Stevens
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“For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith. But the faith and...”
– T.S. Eliot
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“Desire’s wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush...”
– Stephen in Oxen of the Sun
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Sæglópur
á lífi Kominn heim Sæglópur á lífi Kominn heim það kemur kafari
- Sigur Rós
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“All these years she had lived in isolation within herself and, strangely, from...”
– “On Chesil Beach” - Ian McEwan (via swire-sque)
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“Gin and drugs, dear lady, gin and drugs.”
– T.S. Eliot
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“It is simply no good trying to keep any thrill: that is the very worst thing you...”
– C.S. Lewis
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“A book is a great cemetery where the names have been effaced from most of the...”
– Proust, Finding Time Again
March 2013
19 posts
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