February 2012
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“Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be...”
– Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
Purposefully Accidental: To love is to learn a... →
purposefullyaccidental:
Speak me.
It is not enough to use my profanity.
Do not learn my “dick” and my “bitch” and my “fuck you”
And claim you can speak me.
Learn the way my vocabulary changes
The way my curves conjugate.
My eyes can tell a story
With the words of my iris,
My pupil, its punctuation, and…
Reasons The Danish Language Rules:
unspoken0dreams:
1. In my dialect I can say an entire sentence using only vowels: ”a æ u å æ ø i æ å” (“Jeg er ude på øen i åen” = “I am out on the island in the river.”)
Linguistic Limerick I
owlzwerks:
Czech, Please There’s a letter in Czech pronounced rzh, which the students find rather obscure Teeth grated, lips pursed, they muster their worst— and seek easier tongues to endure.
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Watchdonnathucdu:
la la la la
For Nicole Nguyen!
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January 2012
70 posts
“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via troubled)
Watchmacmiiik:
aimeearcilla:
Amazing
This makes me wanna play the violin again!
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
– Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (via bookmania)
Rose Swan's Party House: Beautiful Words →
rosalieswan:
Vignette: a sketch, brief literary or visual event, description, tableau
Ethereal: heavenly, airy in substance, spectral, insubstantial and light
Loquacious: characterized by talking, talking freely or too much, excessively talkative
Salient: prominent or conspicuous, most important
“If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant,...”
– The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (via st-rita)
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I tell myself I don't care anymore. But the timing...
“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by...”
– Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun (via aequinoctium)
“How long will you demand I love you?
I’m through, I won’t make
any more...”
– Power Politics by Margaret Atwood (via aequinoctium)
“What writing itself, in its nonphonetic moment, betrays, is life. It menaces at...”
– Jacques Derrida (via sophiestrand)
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Stats and Goals
Udena-Luckee Weerasekera
Legs: 24.5’
Arms: 15.5’
Chest: 40.0’
Goals
Power Clean: 225
Squat: 350
Deadlift: 410
Bench: 225
Olympic: 150
Anthony Millican
Legs: 20.0’
Arms: 13.25’
Chest: 37.75’
Goals
Squat: 280
Deadlift: 180
Bench: 185
Myself
Legs: 17.0’
Arms: 10.5’
Chest: 31.5’
Goals:
Power Clean: 100 +
Squat: 100 +
Deadlift: 200+
Bench: 100+
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“Imagine a baby walking while drunk on Jack Daniel’s”
– Luckee
“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your...”
– Margaret Atwood (via troubled)
Retrouvailles (French)
nootherwordstosay:
The joy experienced after meeting again after being a long time apart.
La Douleur Exquise (French)
nootherwordstosay:
The excruciating pain experienced when wanting someone you cannot have. Narrower than “unrequited love,” as it refers specifically to the emotional experience of the one whose love is not being reciprocated.
“If you take a book with you on a journey, an odd thing happens: The book begins...”
– Cornelia Funke (via troubled)
living in the limited world: I'm tired of my... →
xeden:
I’m tired of the drugs,
I’m tired of the alcohol
the mindless sex, the i dont give a fuck attitudes
i’m tired of how fake everyone is, trying to put up these images of themselves, trying to be unique but still managing to look alike
There’s got to be more to life than this. I didn’t grow up…
I without doubt agree. I’m tired of the universal ignorance. All this...
tacenda: nice words →
eatnuns:
basorexia: an overwhelming desire to neck or kiss.
lygerastia: the condition of one who is only amorous when the lights are out.
brontide: the low rumbling of distant thunder.
dactylion: the tip of a middle finger.
gargalesthesia: the sensation caused by tickling.
petrichor: the…
Without words and stories, we would be nowhere.
“Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in...”
– Erich Fromm (via sugarfree)
dyinginback:
At times I believed too much in the alchemy of words, or not enough. But they were all I had. Just these airy words and the assumption that, once invoked, they would get what I wanted. Like money. Like God. I’ve won hearts and lost my own, often in the same breath.
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Here are the words from the video
So my name is Viet, like the country. First, Yes I am Vietnamese and no my last name isn’t Nam and neither is my brother’s name. I don’t normally engage in these cyber soliloquys and personally I don’t like hearing my own voice anywhere but resonating from my own mouth. There’s just something particularly eerie and a tad bit awkward hearing myself in a recording or anything for that matter....
Learn the rules so you know how to break them...
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There is no need to ridicule anyone, even if...
