June 2010
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“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no...”
– Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (from riskywiver) (via crashinglybeautiful)
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This Be the Verse
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early...
“You’re disarming yourself in an important struggle if you can’t...”
– Christopher Hitchens about the significance of knowing poetry to the art of seduction. I laughed. (The rest of the interview is also amusing.)
“Driving across the country in a Lamborghini means occasionally driving above the...”
– Matt Hardigree on Richard Jordan, who Sold Everything To Buy A Lamborghini And Drive Across The Country
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Moments
There are moments when one rediscovers that studying German for eight years was worth it, to be able to know a poem like “Todesfuge” in its the original tongue.
“Why winning legislative battles builds momentum but saps political capital, I...”
– Christopher Beam, What if political scientists covered the news?
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Ask Me
Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether
what I have done is my life. Others
have come in their slow way into
my thought, and some have tried to help
or to hurt: ask me what difference
their strongest love or hate has made.
I will listen to what you say.
You and I can turn and look
at the silent river and wait. We know
the current is there, hidden;...
