January 2010
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Homer
Seven cities contend to have harboured his cradle: Smyrna, Chios, Kollophon, Ithaké, Pylos, Argos, Athénai.
Like a lamb he strolls through marine pastures, unseen, unburied, unexcavated, casting no biographical shadow.
Did he ever have trouble with the authorities? Did he never get drunk? Was he never bugged, not even when singing? Did he never love fox terriers, cats, or young boys? How much...
December 2009
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Death Cab for Cutie - “I Will Possess Your...
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CocoRosie - “Werewolf”
November 2009
5 posts
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Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14...
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The Science Of Selling Yourself Short - Less Than...
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Spanish Bombs - The Clash
October 2009
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David Tennant (as Edgar aka “Poor...
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“Push” - Matchbox Twenty
August 2009
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“What literature needs most to tell and investigate today are humanity’s...”
– Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Lecture
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July 2009
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“For we can find no common term to apply to the mimes of Sophron and Xenarchus...”
– Aristotle, Poetics 1447b, distinguishing poetry from prose. Empedocles wrote philosophy in hexameter verse.
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“Epic poetry, then, and the poetry of tragic drama, and, moreover, comedy and...”
– Aristotle, Poetics 1447a, designates lyric poetry, drama, epic poetry, dancing, painting and other forms as mimesis.
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“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is...”
– Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947), mathematician and philosopher
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Extract from “Guided Tour” by Ed Galing
while the guide speaks in a low voice about the many humans who were put to death here, and the group shake their heads, and some weep a bit, and it’s just the way it was when I last stood here myself, after the war, except the piles of broken teeth, jewelry, clothing, are all gone now…
Yes, it’s about nazis.
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“What you look for, feel for – what you end up longing for – is a piece of work...”
– Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet.
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Adolf Hitler: The Larry King Interview.
HITLER: …Larry, look, I was a bad guy. No question. I hate that Hitler. The yelling, the finger pointing, I don’t know … I was a very angry guy.
KING: And this … new Hitler?
HITLER: I get up at seven, have half a melon, do the jumble in the morning paper and then let the day take me where it will…. Me!! The inventor of the Blitzkrieg… When you stop having to control everything it’s very...
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“We all know that there’s no fucking way in the world we should have microwave...”
– Easily one of Fake Steve’s best posts. (via jonascarlsson)
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“I think I’m going to have a dinner party where no one speaks. I’ll...”
– Karl Lagerfeld on Twitter
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Love Kills (Freddie Mercury cover) - Little Boots
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January 2009
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“Why do we trust one another so little? I know there must be a reason, but still...”
– Anne Frank (via overflowing) (via finallyseeing)
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“At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life...”
– (finallyseeing)(Nicole Krauss)
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via lavenderlines) (via align) (via finallyseeing)
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Tumblr Rule #1
This is going to sound snobby but if your Tumblr rocks a cookie-cutter theme that doesn’t even have the colors of the default setup changed, I’m not going to pay attention. That goes for a majority of experienced users. You’ve gotta catch our eyes before we start perusing for interesting content. In a world where content is king, you need to do something to prove that your content stands out and...
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