February 2011
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January 2011
7 posts
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“Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. We don’t...”
– John Green (via glamaphonic)
Oh my god, my life. YES.
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“Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful,...”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“C’est en lisant qu’on devient liseron.”
– Raymond Queneau
At first, with my limited knowledge of French, I read this epigraph to Pierre Bourdieu’s The Rules of Art and assumed it must mean, “It is in reading that we become readers,” although I’d never encountered the word “liseron” before. Imagine my surprise when a dictionary informed me...
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“There is no place that is not haunted by many different spirits hidden there in...”
– Michel de Certeau
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“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of...”
– C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism