February 2011
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NASA Completes 52-Year Mission To Find, Kill God |... →
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Lesser-Known Covers of "I've Got You Under My...
I’ve got you on top of my skin; Jame Gumb aka Buffalo Bill I’ve got you covered in bees; Eddie Izzard I’ve got you on my sofa; Freud I’ve got you passing through my small intestine; The Last Member of the Donner Party I’ve got you chained to a cliff with an eagle pecking out your liver; Zeus I’ve got you in the library, with the lead pipe; Colonel Mustard I’ve got you on...
“All this, and much more, she had accepted, for, after all, living does mean...”
– Fiction: Symbols and Signs : The New Yorker, Vladimir Nabokov
“A tadpole doesn’t know
it’s gonna grow bigger.
It just swims,
and figures...”
– Tadpoles, Andrea Gibson (via veggielezzyfemmie)
Eliot
weehours:
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope
I no longer strive to strive towards such things
(Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?)
Why should I mourn
The vanished power of the usual reign?
Because I do not hope to know again
The infirm glory of the positive hour
Because I do not...
“[Merton] teaches contemplation as a way of living in awareness of each precious,...”
– Vanessa Hurst, “The Flight from Disunity” (from Parabola Magazine, via crashinglybeautiful) Thank you, At Once Good and Imperfect. (via parabola-magazine)
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not...”
– Thomas Merton, (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), 20th century Anglo-American Catholic writer, Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, poet, social activist and student of comparative religion. See the the new issue for an article by Vanessa Hurst on how Thomas Merton viewed suffering: “The...
byronic:
I don’t know for sure, but I can’t imagine that Mary Shelley wasn’t familiar with the legend of the Golem. Having said that, the basic idea of Frankenstein fits well into a tradition of creation myths which include not only the Golem, but also Prometheus (the novel’s full title is actually Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus) and Milton’s Paradise Lost, and even involves more modern...
Sacred Space
crashinglybeautiful:
“Sacred space is a space that is transparent to transcendence, and everything within such a space furnishes a base for meditation, even for the youngest child. When you enter through the door, everything within such a space is symbolic, the whole world is mythologized, and spiritual life is possible. This is a place where you can go and feel safe and bring forth what you are...
“Religion and morality, as they now stand, compose a practical code of misery and...”
– Percy Shelley (via setyourspiritfree)
Al Jazeera English Blacked Out Across Most Of U.S. →
hitrecordjoe:
We Americans are giving the Egyptian government shit for trying to block information. Meanwhile, American cable companies refuse to offer this world-renowned news source, which would be the best place on TV for us to see what’s going on over there.
