December 2011
43 posts
“Even a dragonfly’s head or a gull’s wing
Would be too evolved and...”
– from Songs by Gottfried Benn (via aubade).
“It is never too late to become what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
“Children are all foreigners.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It was that night I discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are...”
– Big Fish
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The ability to afford ignorance is a particularly monstrous type of wealth.
“What is peculiar to modern societies, in fact, is not that they consigned sex to...”
– Foucault, The Repressive Hypothesis, The History of Sexuality
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Are sex offenders and lads’ mags using the same... →
Far from being harmless or ironic fun, lads’ mags could be legitimising hostile sexist attitudes, according to new research.
Psychologists from Middlesex University and the University of Surrey found that when presented with descriptions of women taken from lads’ mags, and comments about women made by convicted rapists, most people who took part in the study could not distinguish...
Witch-wife
She is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. She has more hair than she needs; In the sun ‘tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. She loves me all that she can, And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man, And she never...
“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will...”
– Jesse Jackson
“Do you know, in nine hundred years of time and space, I’ve never met...”
– The Doctor
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In a culture that demands activity, meditation is resistance.
