February 2012
18 posts
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“IF WE HAD THE COURAGE TO LOVE, WE WOULD NOT SO VALUE THESE ACTS OF WAR.”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (again)
“Passion is not so much an emotion as a destiny. What choice have I in the face...”
– The Passion
Jeanette Winterson
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WatchDon’t Ask Don’t Tell.
Be forewarned: this piece of music absolutely blindsided me.
From Todd Reynolds’ album Outerborough
“We live in a time when many religious people feel fiercely threatened by...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Chronicle of Higher Education
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Marilynne Robinson on Humankind, Writing...
“But all we really know about what we are is what we do. There is a tendency to fit a tight and awkward carapace of definition over humankind, and to try to trim the living creature to fit the dead shell.
The advice I give my students is the same advice I give myself—forget definition, forget assumption, watch. We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and...
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“Last line: “Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it...”
– David Foster Wallace (via kadrey)
Love it.
(via harkaway)
QFT
(via jennirl)
“Dodie Bellamy: “An in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability is a...”
– Dodie Bellamy via Emily Books (via rachelfershleiser)
“Paper books may be the only media remaining that don’t report your behavior back...”
– (via wwnorton)
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HAH!
“About the only positive development at court for which Charles could take some credit had occurred on July 3 [1423], when Yolande’s daughter Marie gave birth to the couple’s first child, a son, Louis, thereby establishing a line of succession, although even here Charles could not really be said to have done the heavy lifting.”
The Maid and the Queen (galley)
that Joan of...
