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› The Murder Mile: “Thus our ruin, when the trap is opened (the ruin at least of our...

“Thus our ruin, when the trap is opened (the ruin at least of our separate existence, of this isolated entity, negator of its likenesses), is the very opposite of anguish, which relentlessly and egotistically pursues the debits and credits of any entity resolved to persevere in its being. Under…

› Black Cat by Rainer Maria Rilke

seltzerlizard:

A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place
your sight can knock on, echoing; but here
within this thick black pelt, your strongest gaze
will be absorbed and utterly disappear:

just as a raving madman, when nothing else
can ease him, charges into his dark night
howling, pounds on the padded wall, and feels
the rage being taken in and pacified.

She seems to hide all looks that have ever fallen
into her, so that, like an audience,
she can look them over, menacing and sullen,
and curl to sleep with them. But all at once

as if awakened, she turns her face to yours;
and with a shock, you see yourself, tiny,
inside the golden amber of her eyeballs
suspended, like a prehistoric fly.

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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’ Isaac Asimov (via melodysblog)

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› Health: What 'Brain Food' Actually Does for Your Brain(via @Lifehacker)

You should eat salmon before a test, berries to prevent Alzheimer’s, or a vitamin supplement to increase your memory. You’ve heard the term “brain foods” since you were a kid, but how much do you really know about them?

floresenelatico:

Alfred Eisenstaedt

A man standing in the lumberyard of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing, 1939 — floresenelatico:

*Alfred Eisenstaedt*

*A man standing in the lumberyard of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing, 1939*

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“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”

makeandmana:

Thoreau

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The Uncompromising Critical Thinker

…who neiher subordinates his conscience nor permits himself to be terrorized into action, is in truth, the one who does not give up…Open thinking points beyond itself. For it’s part, such thinking takes a position as a figuration of praxis which is more closely related to a praxis truly involved in change than is a position of mere obedience for the the sake of praxis.

- Theodore Adorno, “Resignation”, Telos 3 (Spring 1978) p. 168

There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos. Jim Hightower

rawhides:

The Black Sea, Turkey
jk i don’t know — rawhides:

*The Black Sea, Turkey*

jk i don’t know

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How To Sharpen Pencils

Aren’t those factory made pencils? Totally inauthentic.

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cuntbarf:

Picasso, Paris 1945 — cuntbarf:

**Picasso, Paris 1945**

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charmaineolivia:

Gerhard Richter

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As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you. Haruki Murakami (via venebelle)