February 2011
76 posts
“let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
just keep going. no feeling is...”
– rainer maria rilke
January 2011
20 posts
“beyond this literal forgetting of animals by eating them, animal bodies were,...”
– “eating animals”, by jonathan safran foer
been reading a lot lately. it’s nice.
20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
youmightfindyourself:
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes,...
“there is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and...”
– ‘slowness’ by milan kundera
Quintessence of Dust: Everytime you say "real... →
moltdance:
Real women are tall. Real women are short. They’re wide. Gaunt. Their bones can stick out of their collarbones, or be disguised by curves or fat. There are real women with breasts and real women with flat chests. There are real women who have had to have their breasts or ovaries…
exactly exactly exactly.
that awkward moment when someone you follow but don’t know posts a picture of them with their best friend, and you realize you had algebra 2 in high school with that best friend and your favorite bookstore is across the street from the place where that photo is taken.
