July 2012
42 posts
“Soft is the collied night, and cool The wind about the garden pool. Here will I...”
– James Elroy Flecker, “Fountains,” from Poems.
Anonymous asked: go fuck yourself you ugly slut
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Maybe it is or maybe it isn’t, but I’m counting as the most singular proof of misogyny on the Internet that I never get any kind of abuse from anonymous asks. Even though I’m mean, sarcastic, opinionated, I constantly belittle my own follower demographic, I’m self-congratulatory about my taste and looks… I could go on.
But on the other side of the spectrum, my female friends can post pictures of...
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“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.”
– Francis Bacon, Of Cunning.
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How pleasant it is to be a cipher! And how satisfying to be stoic as a stone.
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“One, two and many: flesh had made him blind, Flesh had one pleasure only in the...”
– Robert Graves, “Ulysses.”
Anonymous asked: nudes please
osmium asked: If I were a tween what is the best question I could ask?
Anonymous Ask Reenabled →
Since my demographic has skewed back towards interesting people as opposed to the horde of tweens I’ve had following me the past year, I’ve reenabled the anonymous ask box indefinitely. Go nuts.
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Maybe I’m just going to offend a bunch of nerds here but I didn’t think The Dark Knight Rises was anything particularly special. Uneven, not great writing, simplistic storytelling and themes: just the story of America versus terrorism with capes added, really. Mostly well-choreographed—if spastic—action scenes, bookended by repetitious patter. I’m going to have to go back and...
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“Music of Japan. Drops of slow honey
Or of invisible gold are dispersed
In a...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, “The Music Box,” from The Sonnets.
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“Of Ymer’s flesh
The earth was made,
And of his sweat the seas;
Rocks of...”
– From the “Gylfaginning,” as collected in Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda, 1880 Anderson translation.
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“Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”
– Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1958 Cohen translation.
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“The arithmetical machine produces effects which approach nearer to thought than...”
– Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1910 Trotter translation.
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The great thing about these murders is what convenient political hay they make. Thank God, right?
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“Love is a certain inborn suffering derived from the sight of and excessive...”
– Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love, 1990 Parry translation.
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“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier...”
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Homer, The Iliad (via larmoyante)
I will thank the editors of the #lit tag not to propagate ludicrous falsehoods. This is a line from the movie Troy. It was written by David Benioff. The difference between Homer and Benioff is the entire Western literary canon and a few millennia. Can we...
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Oh look, somebody decided to read his poem aloud...
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“I have this general characteristic too, that of all the opinions held by ancient...”
– Michel de Montaigne, “On Presumption,” from his Essays.
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I know this is spilt milk and all that, but I miss the ability to recommend a blog once a week.
Now all the power, in that sense, is concentrated in the hands of people who already have it. Which, don’t get me wrong, the people who do have it are all a bunch of really nice guys and girls, but it’s not democratic by a long shot.
So basically, as I understand it, the point behind QR codes is that literacy isn’t an exclusive enough club anymore, so now we need to make signs that are completely unreadable to people without expensive phones. Right?
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“The sea hath no king but God alone.”
– Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship.
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Accidental Noir
“… but I have an active imagination,” I said, leaning up against the bar, and wishing for another whiskey straight.
She gazed at me through the veil of cigarette smoke, taking a long draw, then popping a martini olive in her mouth. One long leg lay bare on the divan where her cocktail dress had slipped away. “I’ve heard those can be dangerous left unchecked.”
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Just mistook an ad for a graphic novel for an ad for a “seraphic novel” and was extremely disappointed.
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Can girls/women between the ages of 14 and 35 please start wearing tags with your ages on it because dammit I don’t know if what I’m thinking is wrong.
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“I have known many poets here who have written well—very fine stuff—with delicate...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, from an interview of July 1966, The Paris Review.
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Sentences Which Could Be Stabbed Brutally And Left...
“But is the relationship Facebook official yet?”
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“It is currently said that hope goes with youth, and lends to youth its wings of...”
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G. K Chesterton, in his 1906 biography of Charles Dickens.
For Kendon, on his birthday.
The endlessly quotable Chesterton. Thanks, man.
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“‘Who then,’ she continues, ‘tells a finer tale than any of us?...”
– Isak Dinesen, “The Blank Page,” from Last Tales.
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Today I am 27, etc.
