December 2010
20 posts
“It’s a small, cramped world of shadows exchanging furtive looks.”
– From a Soviet-era propaganda film about the underground trade of vinyl records, usually of American rock and R&B, during the 1950s.
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Passus XVIII
Wolle-ward and wete-shoed went I forth after
As a reccheles renke that reccheth of no wo,
And yede forth lyke a lorel, al my lyftyme,
Tyl I wex wery of the worlde and wylned eft to slepe…
Wool-chafed and wet-shoed went I forth
Like a careless creature, unconscious of woe,
And trudged forth like a tramp, all my life,
Until I grew weary of the world and longed to sleep again.
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in-aglasshouse:
lavanguardia:
No one in this house eats any fucking fruits or vegetables.
Your family too?! I can’t stand it. My parents eat takeout approx. 75% of the time.
My father literally survives on a diet of hamburgers and iceberg lettuce, a pristine relic of the once-great “Atkins diet.”
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When the Hammer strikes the Anvil, the Anvil will...
Why does the media continue to treat the Palestinian authority with hostility for refusing to accept Israeli settlements as part of a peace agreement? How can you even pretend to maintain integrity as a national authority when your population centers are being inundated by thousands of hostile Israeli settlers? Please do everything you can to stop this misconception of Palestine as an unyielding,...
“Nor blame I Death, because he bare
The use of virtue out of earth;
I know...”
– From Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam.
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"surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass" →
A powerful, useful article on the ways in which the status quo in this country (and elsewhere) can shift the charge of cultural insensitivity away from themselves on onto minorities, such as Muslims, and thereby contrive and fuel this senseless “culture war.”
The allusion to Ralph Ellison that the author makes pleased me enormously.
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“Emails released by the California Department of Corrections described...”
– c/o Harper’s Magazine.
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I love plague doctors! →
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Attention Campus Crusade for Christ
Let us make something clear:
This is a crusade.
This is not a crusade.
Thank you.
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Intentio vero nostra est manifestare in hoc...
“It is our intention in this book to set forth things that are as they are.”
-Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Sicily and Jerusalem (1194-1250), from his book on the art of hunting with falcons, De Arte Venandi cum Avibus. Patron of the arts, science, and mathematics, he was widely condemned for being tolerant of Muslims within his kingdoms and for accepting scientific...
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““In an article in The Australian newspaper on Tuesday, by contrast, Mr....”
– C/O The New York Times.
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