November 2011
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“Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something...”
– Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale
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“I believe in magic. My life and most people’s lives are a series of little...”
– My Week With Marilyn, Colin Clark
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“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast....”
– Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
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“Since you did depart
Out of my reach, my darling,
Into the hidden,
I see each...”
– The Inheritance, D.H. Lawrence
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“I have weather veins.
They are especially sensitive
to dust storms and...”
– Andrea Gibson
hamandheroin:
“Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your...
nyctophobia
an abnormal fear of night or darkness
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“Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to
My vague memory of you. I live with...”
– Love, Pablo Neruda
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qu4ntumrush:
A biologist weighs in on the Mississippi “personhood bill”
Let me first state my opinion as a biologist. Human life does not “begin”, it is transmitted. Human personhood is not a biological concept: it is the state of being a human being for legal and moral purposes. Laws and morality need a clear line between “person” and “not a person”, biology does not care. We may need to...
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apanthropinization
Withdrawal from human concerns or the human world
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this is incredible, petrifying, and hilarious. →
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WatchMarcus is always breaking a string
