August 2011
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npr is streaming video of the... →
neat.
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“He’d once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.”
—Don DeLillo, White Noise (via sherry)
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“cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping...”
– sue fondrie’s winning entry in the 2011 bulwer-lytton fiction contest (for the worst opening sentence to an imaginary novel).
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cecilia payne-gaposchkin →
file under: people i could possibly be related to (but am probably not related to (but wish i could be related to)).
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if a married lesbian couple saves 40 teens from... →
translated from the original finnish article:
Hege Dalen and her spouse, Toril Hansen were near Utöyan having dinner on the opposite shore across from the ill-fated campsite, when they began to hear gunfire and screaming on the island.
“We were eating. Then shooting and then the awful screaming. We saw how the young people ran in panic into the lake,” says Dale to HS in an interview.
The...
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lkmlln:
Once, tending to infinity, A Doctor of Divinity Collided with the Trinity. They said, ‘How do you do?’
He answered, ‘I have come so far, From star to star, from star to star, A little dizzy, under par. Is this where I tend to?’
They answered, ‘Your velocity Cannot at most amount to c, So you must voyage eternally. Adieu, good Sir, adieu!’
- J.L. Synge, Kandelman’s Krim (1957)
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