January 2010
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Trailhead →
“On the way, she touched the tip of her abdomen repeatedly to the ground, laying down a thin trail of chemicals. Entering the nest, she rushed up to each nest mate she passed, brushing her face close to theirs. With their antennae, her nest mates detected both the trail substance and the smell of grasshopper. The signals now proclaimed, Food. I have found food. Follow my trail! Soon a mob of...
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“I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.”
To the man who managed to do this and not get lost in it, at least on some level - J.D. Salinger
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“Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;
Not untwist -...”
– “Carrion Comfort,” Gerard Manley Hopkins
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believe in stuff like this
So, I know you already know I’m alive because I just posted like five minutes ago or something, but I went to check out my old blog that I had referenced in that last one and someone had responded to that guy. They wrote in Japanese so I sent it through the Google translator to just get an upshot of what they said, and it came out as this:
“Love, apart for a heart and by the word....
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January 19, the midnight hour
So, I’m not really sure why I find myself writing here tonight, but I felt like entering back into the clutches of the reality-(un)riddled internet world again. Much has happened, and I’ve posted a decent number of things, but you all haven’t heard my voice in a while, and as the arbitrator on your ears of this little cubby hole in the big, wide world of wires, I feel it as my...
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This story is great. →
“There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
“For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
“Words were originally magic and to this day words have retained much of their...”
– Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
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My Last Week in Memories
A lot has happened since my last post, but I’ll just stick with the main stuff I remember and not hurt my brain too much in trying to recall anything.
Still reading Anna Karenina, and didn’t finish it over break like I wanted. I’m still not very far into it relative to how big the thing is, but I guess I’ll just have to try to finish it while starting up at school again. I...
