February 2012
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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“Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be...”
– Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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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…
Feb 8th
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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.”)
Feb 8th
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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.
Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 6th
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WatchWatch
donnathucdu: la la la la For Nicole Nguyen!
Feb 5th
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
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“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via troubled)
Jan 30th
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macmiiik: aimeearcilla: Amazing This makes me wanna play the violin again!
Jan 30th
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“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
– Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (via bookmania)
Jan 28th
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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
Jan 25th
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“If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant,...”
– The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (via st-rita)
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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I tell myself I don't care anymore. But the timing...
Jan 23rd
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Jan 20th
“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by...”
– Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun (via aequinoctium)
Jan 20th
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“How long will you demand I love you? I’m through, I won’t make any more...”
– Power Politics by Margaret Atwood (via aequinoctium)
Jan 20th
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“What writing itself, in its nonphonetic moment, betrays, is life. It menaces at...”
–  Jacques Derrida (via sophiestrand)
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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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+
Jan 18th
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“Imagine a baby walking while drunk on Jack Daniel’s”
– Luckee
Jan 17th
“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your...”
– Margaret Atwood (via troubled)
Jan 17th
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Retrouvailles (French)
nootherwordstosay: The joy experienced after meeting again after being a long time apart.
Jan 17th
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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.
Jan 16th
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“If you take a book with you on a journey, an odd thing happens: The book begins...”
– Cornelia Funke (via troubled)
Jan 16th
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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...
Jan 16th
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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…
Jan 16th
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Without words and stories, we would be nowhere.
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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“Among the many forms of alienation, the most frequent one is alienation in...”
– Erich Fromm (via sugarfree)
Jan 16th
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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.
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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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....
Jan 15th
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Learn the rules so you know how to break them...
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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There is no need to ridicule anyone, even if...
Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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