February 2012
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Get Yours While You Can- Anthony Green
Borges' Animals
In “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins,” Borges describes ‘a certain Chinese Encyclopedia,’ the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, in which it is written that animals are divided into:
those that belong to the Emperor,
embalmed ones,
those that are trained,
suckling pigs,
mermaids,
fabulous ones,
stray dogs,
those included in the present...
weakseason asked: haaay, did you go to the st vincent concert? : D
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– A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter. And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There were times we regretted The summer palaces on slopes,...
“All Is Ash or the Light Shining Through It”
– The Sound of Animals Fighting
“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via peachyyhaze)
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feeth asked: Holy shit you blog is amazing
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“[Things are] by convention, sweet; by convention, bitter; by convention, hot; by...”
– Democritus, M 7.135 