November 2012
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Hipster Lit flowchart →
“what should I read next” a hipster flowchart from GoodReads.
nevver:
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summerisle | On Being a Nietzschean Pagan →
A great essay and worth the read through: what should modern paganism mean/be as contrasted with Christianity. Not my usual cup, but well worth the read through and consideration
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Adjectives →
fattyftw:
nevver:
“Adjectives are frequently the greatest enemy of the substantive.”
- Voltaire
“[I was taught] to distrust adjectives as I would later learn to distrust certain people in certain situations.”
- Ernest Hemingway
“The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.”
- Clifton Paul Fadiman
“When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don’t mean utterly, but kill most...
If you do not come apart like bread in her hands, she falls like steel on your...
– Diane di Prima (via which-witch)
Must look up this poet now.
Science is nothing more than a never-ending search for truth. What could be more...
– Ann Druyan (via the-daily-cosmos)
In my grandparents’ time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere — in...
– Hayao Miyazaki on Spirited Away (via crypticskies)