December 2011
1 post
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
6 posts
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/10/20/i... →
Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,
O, what panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
Wi’ murd’ring pattle!
I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion
Has broken Nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle,
At me, thy...
September 2011
10 posts
1 tag
“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer...”
– Henry Miller (via abbeykoczur)
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain →
“Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.”
1 tag
August 2011
4 posts
“Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with...”
– W.B. Yeats
July 2011
10 posts
How did I go to MIT for 6 years and not know this existed?
http://oki-dev.mit.edu:8080/narravision-web/index.html
“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (via livejamie)
“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see...”
– Egon Schiele (via riverbones)
June 2011
2 posts
I think it means something when the people that I draw start to look less and less like me and more and more like you…
Litost is an untranslatable Czech word. Its first syllable, which is long and stressed, sounds like the wail of an abandoned dog. As for the meaning of this word, I have looked in vain in other languages for an equivalent, though I find it difficult to imagine how anyone can understand the human soul without it. Let me give an example: The student went swimming in the river one day...
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
3 posts
“It has been remarked that the very essence of civilization consists of purposely...”
– Vygotsky
“The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never...”
– Haruki Murakami (via slychedelic)
“A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten...”
– Marguerite Yourcenar, With Open Eyes (via prettybooks)
March 2011
3 posts
Skeletons of Dreams
He found giants in the earth: Mastodon, Mylodon, thigh bones like tree trunks, Megatherium, skulls big as boulders- once, in this savage country, treetops trembled at their passing. But their passing was silent as snails, silent as rabbits: nothing at all recorded the day when the last of them came crashing through creepers and ferns, shaking the earth a final time, leaving behind them...
“In my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via milkwoods)
February 2011
3 posts
“Comme cette terre m’étouffera, je vous conjure de faire ouvrir mon corps...”
– Fréderic Chopin
Who wouldn’t want a pretty, clever girl to be madly in love with him…
January 2011
4 posts
Spell your full name without an...
thekeri:
h-may:
thekeri:
theunscientificmethod:
missshirley:
frozenheads:
oportspangles:
jujuistrulyoutrageous:
J D HOWTO H. Well, okay then.
D TH.
And that is as close as I will get to putting my name on this blog.
U.
My first name without those letters is U.
(via billie-joe)
Th W. Rather lacks the same ring.
hwob. My first name doesn’t work.
- O G. …yeahhhhh.
...
“It was through a thin, smooth skin that man loved.”
– Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata
my weekend
parabola, shaded and sideways.
December 2010
2 posts
amphinomos asked: who's that lady playing the piano? and what piece is it? Few things I know, but I know that it is lovely.