December 2010
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“Here is Always Somewhere Else.”
– Bas Jan Ader
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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on being suspended
thewholedamncake: i reckon i’ve lost some sentimentality for time. time is expected - dull, even. seconds are cliche and the hourglass, while beautiful, is obsolete. everywhere in the world, 10 is about to be 11 and i suppose everything harnesses itself on time, but i woke up today feeling less than momentous about the year advancing one up. in the past, i would have spoken to 2010 as if it had...
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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A Glittering, Sarah Manguso.
One mourner says if I can just get through this year as if salvation comes in January. Slow dance of suicides into the earth: I see no proof there is anything else. I keep my obituary current but I believe that good times are right around the corner. A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking, Michelangelo is believed to have said. To determine the essential parts of a sculpture,...
Dec 30th
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Listenwhiteowl / theoverlydramatictruth /...
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Listenwhiteowl: the national - don’t cry honey (my...
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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“Between the licks of his swirling-candy stick, Lazarus asks Olga if she loves...”
– The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon. (via therescue) 4 pages away from finishing this book. It is gorgeous and sad, and I hope you get to read it someday.
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Adage, Billy Collins.
When it’s late at night and branches are banging against the windows, you might think that love is just a matter of leaping out of the frying pan of yourself into the fire of someone else, but it’s a little more complicated than that. It’s more like trading the two birds who might be hiding in that bush for the one you are not holding in your hand. A wise man once said that...
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac (via the-exchange)
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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“I’m speaking from the point of view of a teacher here in the Ateneo. As I grow...”
– Fr. Adolfo Dacanay, SJ, on what he’s learned for the past year  (via danatorio / ambiguouslyentitled)
Dec 23rd
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“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and...”
– Michael Cunningham, The Hours (via welovewriters)
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies...”
– Neil Gaiman in his Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech, The Graveyard Book. (via incandenza)
Dec 19th
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“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
– excerpt from Frank O’Hara’s “To The Film Industry in Crisis.”
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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kenna asked: Readernaut or Goodreads? Or do you use something else to catalog your books?
Dec 17th
kenna asked: Readernaut or Goodreads? Or do you use something else to catalog your books?
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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albb asked: I read your Deathly Hallows Pt1 review just now (I am lame!) and I just wanted to tell you that it's perfect. Your review, I mean, not necessarily the film.
Dec 17th
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ListenCrossed Out Name — Ryan Adams and the Cardinals ...
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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