June 2011
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April 2010
2 posts
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I remember this scene almost everyday!
I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed, we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheels. For a long time, we were parked a few yards beyond without getting out, fully absorbed in the sight of the corpse. The horror and despair at so much bloody flesh, nauseating in part, and in part...
“They thought death was worth it, but I Have a self to recover, a queen. Is...”
– Sent to you by do-l via Google Reader: “They thought death was worth
it, but I Have a self to recover, a queen. Is she dead, is she…” via
saturn rising on 4/13/10
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They thought death was worth it, but I
Have a self to recover, a queen.
Is she dead, is she sleeping?
Where...
March 2010
7 posts
“The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in...”
– Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental Life (via invisiblestories)
On life and living
It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one’s hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be. If love becomes all it can be through willpower, willpower can achieve even more when one wants to help. But the gods alone can procure help, and when they make use of us to accomplish their acts of charity they like to plunge us into...
“Of course, the movements have meanings behind them. If we were sure of the...”
– Dorothy Bryant, The Kin of Ata are Waiting For You (via rebirth-through-adaptation & clothedinsky) (via crashinglybeautiful)
