"Falling girl won't go higher than the second floor of any building. She's never set foot on a balcony and the floor is the only place she'll sit. A small sample of things she's fallen from includes trees, cars, grace, first-storey windows, horses, ladders, bicycles, the wagon, countless kitchen counters, and her grandmother's knee

The Chip

Chip ( Read more... )

Danny the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl ( Read more... )

"It was typical of Matthew and me that we even noticed the sculpture [of Toscanini]. I doubt if any of the other students could have confirmed its existence if we'd mentioned it to them. We never did ( Read more... )

"I am a voyeur. One of the great delights of travel is looking at people who do not know you are looking at them. She opens the book too rapidly for me to see the title ( Read more... )

1) Juggling with Disdain
2) Statues in a Grotto
3) The Verbs - (They're Action Packed!)
4) Bum Slap Messenger
5) Musical Whiplash
6) Maybe You Got Grumpy and Kicked a Manatee
7) Vanguard Machine
8) The Contradictory Turks

Yes! I got the monkey off my back of the second section of my thesis, jesus that took way too long, I hope Annie's not too mad. To wind down I saw the finale of Fringe, knocked my socks off! Was very late for the movies with dov, well he just laughed it off, sometimes life OK no? Saw Star trek, blew my fucking mind and was well beyond my ( Read more... )

I feel very tired, alone and happy! The city gets very silent at 1:30 in the morning. I wish I could bottle this and keep it handy for when I feel nagging self doubt creeping in about 2-5 weeks.
Jeebus.

" You have already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this ( Read more... )

"She said yes, maybe it was no; she had to reach back in time through a clouded memory, nothing was certain. To begin with, poor people's memory is less nourished than that of the rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughout their lives that are gray and ( Read more... )

What an agnostic dyslexic insomniac does at night?

Lies awake wondering whether there really is a dog

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"It's turtles all the way down"

- Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God