June 2012
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“That she loved me I should not have doubted; and I might have been easily aware...”
– E. A. Poe, Ligeia, paragraph eight (via 61dccain)
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May 2012
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“Letters of Note posts a letter John Steinbeck sent his son Thom in 1958, on the...”
– New York times (via rfarine)
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More people have a phobia of vomiting than death
ohyeahfacts:
The fear of vomiting is called Emetophobia, the fear of death is called Thanatophobia, and the fear of dead things is called Necrophobia.
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today, i had a long conversation with a male friend of mine to which we discussed female (hetero—apologies for the exclusions and lack of all-inclusive vocab) sexuality and sexual authority/ awareness and how the western woman sacrifices her own agency, particularly to appease another’s ideals. rather, i suppose the idea of silence and its volumes: girls are told they don’t...
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“Those who subvert social norms are, ostensibly, people who have forgotten that...”
– So Michel Foucault and Jeremy Bentham walk into an elementary school cafeteria* via the Two Whole Cakes blog by Lesley Kinzel (via transformfeminism)
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“I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers. (via ivyinspired)
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“I’m (expletive deleted) starving.”
– Celebrity chef Mario Batali • Discussing the diet he’s currently on — he’s eating like he’s on food stamps (an average of $1.48 per meal, or $31 per week) in protest of potential cuts to the federal food stamps program. His family was nice enough to join him in what he calls a conversation starter...
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