August 2011
51 posts
This Is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that... →
quenching:
This Is Just to Say
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
(WC Williams)
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
1 I chopped down the house that you had…
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“The way she finally concluded that something was wrong with her was: either...”
– dfw via andreisp
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A study by a group of Cambridge University scientists led by Dr John Coates, himself a former Wall Street broker, compared the profits of the traders over a period of 20 months with their finger-length. They found that the ring finger length, fingers being located near to though not actually a part of palms, was correlated to city stockbrokers’ success.
ref: [Coates, J. M.; Gurnell, M.,...
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Correspondence between Charles Wright and Charles... →
“Gnostics are gnarled and gnomic, gnashing their teeth, gnathically gnawing the gnarring gnocchi of truth, which is gnat-like and gneissic. Is their gnomon a gnu? No.”
via rabidchildstaysathome
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World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest...
fyeahwomenartists:
Artist Erika Nelson runs a traveling museum that displays the World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Versions of of the World’s Largest Things.
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AAARGH: dadoranonimo: The London Riots – On... →
dadoranonimo:
The London Riots – On Consumerism coming Home to Roost by Zygmunt Bauman
“These are not hunger or bread riots. These are riots of defective and disqualified consumers.”
“”The objects of desire, whose absence is most violently resented, are nowadays many and varied – and…
Cloacina, a deusa do sistema de esgoto →
falameia:
- e que também regulava o sexo no casamento
CLOACA MAXIMA <333
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lista das peças clássicas mais tocadas em... →
