December 2010
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Dec 29th
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“One day, you’re in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and...”
– Love Is A Mix Tape by Robert Sheffield (via thechocolatebrigade) [reading this now. heartbreaking and wonderful.]
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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“Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards...”
– T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets”
Dec 29th
Dec 27th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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i think i’m actually enjoying watching my life fall apart. how fucked up is that?
Dec 24th
Dec 23rd
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“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via thechocolatebrigade)
Dec 23rd
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Dec 20th
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“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I...”
–  Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 18th
“I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through...”
– NP by Banana Yoshimoto (via thechocolatebrigade)
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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projectgutenberg: The writings of many of the women considered in this volume have sunk into an oblivion from which their intrinsic merit should have preserved them. This is partly due to the fact that nearly all the books on literature have been written from a man’s stand-point. - Clara H. Whitmore, Preface to Women’s Work in English Fiction (1909) [full text]
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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thedailywhat: Early Bird Special: So you’ve survived the nuclear apocalypse. Now what? [devour.]
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
Dec 9th
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Oh! to Be Loved by a Poet...
“Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me — write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to...
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
Dec 5th
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thatgirlpatty: blindxbrigadier: Deerhunter’s awe-inspiring performance of “Helicopter” on CONAN last night. This is undoubtedly the most incredible musical performance I have seen on any late night show. Wow, Deerhunter, you are amazing. oh wow. oh man. so awesome.
Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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