March 2011
59 posts
You said there is no way to destroy this world so... →
“Which is where romance comes in, subsuming awkwardness and rendering it not only...”
– From “I Can Awkward”
Via The Awl
(via modernandmaterialthings)
The mask possesses equal levels of sorcery and functionality. It has been both handed down from ancient times with darkness and sent back from the future with light. —Murakami, “After Dark”
ideas > skill = frustration
“You must build the language that you will live in.You must build the house where...”
– AND THE WAR HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN
“The son of well-to-do parents who, whether from talent or weakness, engages in a...”
– Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia
“Arnold was named Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 1857, a position he...”
“I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our...”
– Patti Smith, Just Kids (via nightmarebrunette)
“In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of...”
– Foucault “Of Other Spaces” (via modernandmaterialthings)
“We talk about the technical because that is what can be talked about…....”
