May 2010
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“Traveling between degraded and glamorous realities is part of the very momentum...”
– Susan Sontag (via claytoncubitt)
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“I thought of certain lines life had put on his face as personal as a line of his...”
– The End of the Affair, Graham Greene (1951, p.108) (via derica) (via tobia)
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“It is like travel. You journey from the event and as it becomes more distant it...”
– from Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively (via linzo)
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“Before I got hungry enough to go home I watched a train throw sparks, setting...”
– Andrew Michael Roberts (via unicornology) (via thequantum)
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“I dare not speak, unless in song.”
– Chatelain de Coucy
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“Our lives are part of a unique adventure… Nevertheless, most of us think the...”
– Jostein Gaarder (via suzywire)
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“It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for...”
– William Carlos Williams
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The Mistake, Jack Gilbert
There is always the harrowing by mortality, the strafing by age, he thinks. Always defeats. Sorrows come like epidemics. But we are alive in the difficult way adults want to be alive. It is worth having the heart broken, a blessing to hurt for eighteen years because a woman is dead. He thinks of long before that, the summer he was with Gianna and her sister in Apulia. Having outwitted the General,...
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I’m getting up early to have a litre of blood taken for testing. If blood loss was memory letting, I could start over with no past by now.
*1 litre is clearly an exaggeration.
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The Clerk's Tale, Spencer Reece
James Franco’s short film The Clerk’s Tale will premiere on the closing night of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Seven high resolution images from the film have come online along with the film’s synopsis. Written, directed, and edited by Franco, the film “is a psychological portrait of a gay man trapped in the monotonous routine of life at a high-end menswear store.” The film stars John ...
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WatchI filmed this at the Aviaros del Caribe sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica - the world’s only sloth orphanage. Baby 2 and 3 toed sloths, whose mother’s have either been run over or zapped by power lines, are brought to the centre to be cared for by sloth whisperer Judy Arroyo.
Meet the sloths (by Amphibian Avenger)
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I find it easier to be out of reach. You reach inside the sleeve of my cardigan and put two fingers on my wrist, like you’re taking the pulse of my love. My pulse feels like a moth’s wings battering against a light bulb, desperate to escape and blinded by your light.
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The News, Arda Collins
At last, terror has arrived. Next door, the house has gone up in flames. A woman runs from the burning wreck, her face smeared with blood and ashes. She screams that her children are kidnapped. It’s truly exciting, and what more would anyone ask? For a rare and beautiful egg to present itself in the grass? For sex with the liquor store owner to progress into something meaningful? You...
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WatchÓlafur Arnalds – Hægt, kemur ljósið (Official Music Video) (by Erased Tapes)
I watched this video in my office at work and my heart soared like the bird’s wings. Happy tears fell on my cheeks.
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“Oh, they can’t scare me, I’m sticking to the poetry. I am not afraid...”
– Lorna Dee Cervantes
“Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so...”
– Stephen Colbert
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A butterfly’s wings narrowly miss my head. My body is a runway to the sky.
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twitterjam:
@kissability I lose respect for...
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Toki Wright has breathed new life into Public...
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My white skin only sees the sun underwater. Tattooed with squid ink, I am Chinese porcelain, hand painted with blue.
Tuesday, sinking.
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Crossing, Geleni Fontaine
“We didn’t cross the borders the borders crossed us.” —2006 Chicahua Necahual We didn’t cross the borders the borders crossed us unbilicus to pubic bone axilla to tweflth floating rib through the part in black hair the beds, the bones and ridiculously through the ocean darkness. How do we recognize each other behind fenced skin? Only the deepest touch ...
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“I am Grace Jones. I can do anything I choose.”
– Grace Jones
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If You Leave Your Shoes, Joseph Ross
If you leave your shoes on the front porch when you run to the city pool for swimming lessons, you might end up walking across the sand of the desert in scorched feet, bare, like the prophets, who knew what it was to burn. If you leave your lover to run to the market for bread and pears you might return to find your lover gone and the bed covered with knives, hot and gleaming...
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