December 2009
13 posts
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“ Some people are so good at manipulating what’s on the surface, you never...”
– Jeff Greenwald in Snake Lake
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The domain of the nagas, this Snake Lake, was nothing less than a...”
– Jeff Greenwald in Snake Lake
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If...”
– Kafka (via fuckyeahhappy)
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The mind, jumping between hope and fear, creates suffering.
To suffer means...”
– Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Snake Lake by Jeff Greenwald
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Sex, love, and "the sting of a brute desire"
When love finds it self utterly unmatcht, and justly vanishes, nay rather cannot but vanish, the fleshy act indeed may continue, but not holy, not pure, not beseeming the sacred bond of Marriage; being at best but an animal excretion, but more truly worse and more ignoble than that mute kindliness among the herds and flocks: in that proceeding as it ought from intellective principles, it...
Okay. Either my roommates are really bad at playing trumpet, or they ate way too much raw zucchini salad.
No heat, 40 degrees in room: I am drinking authentically chilled red wine.
For someone who’s never dropped acid I hallucinate an awful lot.
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Lady Caroline Blackwood, a visionary
“I would like you to have a much fuller social life than you do at present,” he kept telling her. “You should try to mix with people of your own age. Your attachment to this young man was clearly a very neurotic one. You should try to strike up some new acquaintances with whom you can have an interesting and lively exchange of ideas, establish mature and valuable...
Is it some sort of faux pas to grind your weed in a coffee grinder?
Much to my dismay, I’ve just learned the meaning of the word “pedant.” I am one.
Cyber Monday: the newest holiday pulled out of the ether’s proverbial asshole by scheming corpofucks to get people to spend more money on useless crap.