April 2012
“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise,...”
– David Foster Wallace in The Pale King (via explore-blog)
“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization....”
– Among Others, Jo Walton, p. 59
The 13 Most Useless College Majors (As Determined...
byronic:
newsweek:
1. Fine Arts
2. Drama and Theatre Arts
3. Film, Video, and Photographic Arts
4. Commercial Art and Graphic Design
5. Architecture
6. Philosophy and Religious Studies
7. English Literature and Language
8. Journalism
9. Anthropology and Archeology
10. Hospitality Management
11. Music
12. History
13. Political Science and Government
(Ed: Your primary tumblrs...
Six Recognitions of the Lord
crashinglybeautiful:
I lounge on the grass, that’s all. So simple. Then I lie back until I am inside the cloud that is just above me but very high, and shaped like a fish. Or, perhaps not. Then I enter the place of not-thinking, not-remembering, not- wanting. When the blue jay cries out his riddle, in his carping voice, I return. But I go back, the threshold is always near. Over and back, over...
“On the death of any living creature the spirit returns to the spiritual world,...”
– Aziz Nasafi, a 13th century Islamic Persian mystic quoted in What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger in the chapter “The Arithmetical Paradox: The oneness of mind.” Pilfered from the excellent blog on Buddhism and Practice, 108ZenBooks. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“The heart that gives, gathers.”
– Marianne Moore, , (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American Modernist poet and writer. (via parabola-magazine)
The World Loved by Moonlight
crashinglybeautiful:
You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It is like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.
—Jane Hirshfield, “The World Loved By Moonlight” “Its source was a sentence written by Chekhov in a letter to a young writer: “If you want to move your reader, write more coldly.” The...
crashinglybeautiful:
“I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.”
—Mary Oliver, from The Poet’s Notebook: Excerpts from the Notebooks of 26 American Poets, edited by Stephen Kuusisto, Deborah Tall, and David Weiss (W. W. Norton & Company, 1995)
Thank you, apoetreflects.
“‘Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants...”
– J.K. Rowling (via pants-are-irrelevant)
“Some Nickelodeon executives were worried, says Konietzko, about backing an...”
– ‘Airbender’ Creators Reclaim Their World in ‘Korra’ (via meggannn)
Executives working in TV development/programming need to realize that children don’t see the boy/girl demographic. If a show is good, children are going to like it regardless of the demographic the executives are trying to...
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