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Happy Birthday Sylvia darling dearest
If you were coming in the Fall,
I’d brush the Summer by
With half a smile, and half a spurn,
As Housewives do, a Fly …
- Emily Dickinson
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Russian or Chinese?
I'm currently semi-free(in twelve days I shall be as free as a baby), and I was thinking that I should learn a new language. There's a joke on russian livejournal - 'optimists study english, pessimists study chinese, and realists learn the working of a kalashnikov rifle ( Read more... ) -
Dear David Foster Wallace, you stole my soul...or did I steal yours?
If you like reading Virgina Woolf, then it is very very easy to fall in pace with the rhythm of DFW. The same, 'stream of consciousness' style of writing. He puts the post, in post modernism, so wildly unique and yet very approachable. I do realise that some people hate him for the length(Infinite Jest, The Pale King), but start with the small ( Read more... ) -
damn that's interesting
A training ground in China's Inner Mongolia is a replica of the road network near Taiwan's Presidential Palace.
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possessive passion and obsession- my new idol
I started getting obsessed with Woolf a year after I read To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, A Room of One's Own, and Orlando. It took a whole year to process that I was in fact getting into my Woolf era, pretty late ( Read more... ) -
Uber Esser- Superfluous Eaters
They ask, how does a Gandhian India have so much violence in it? Gandhian philosophy is an act, a stage play that requires an audience. In the depths of a forest where there is no one to watch, how can the starved displaced tribes stage a hunger strike ( Read more... ) -
Hahahaha
Here's what happened after Covid vaccines were made available in the US: "The excess death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters." 43% is a *massive* difference in outcome. Literally a death cult.