March 2010
18 posts
“Evola did n(l{ mean lO cngl1ge til an cxhlluqivc interpretation of cultures a:-....”
– — Revolt Against the Modern World, Julius Evola
This is what happens when you use state of the art text recognition on a bad-quality, rare image pdf, open the resulting text in a pdf viewer, copy all 200+ pages to the clipboard while praying that your computer won’t crash, paste the...
Not a lightweight or unambitious vacuum
But all this is small potatoes compared to 1009’s fascinating and potentially malevolent toilet. A harmonious concordance of elegant form and vigorous function, flanked by rolls of tissue so soft as to be without the usual perforates for tearing, my toilet has above it this sign:
THIS TOILET IS CONNECTED TO A VACUUM SEWAGE SYSTEM. PLEASE DO NOT THROW INTO THE TOILET ANYTHING THAN ORDINARY...
Magnitude →
(via www.lukesurl.com)
“We are not born into this world, but grow out of it; for in the same way an...”
– Alan Watts
“A woman walks up to a bartender and asks for a Double Entendre, so he gives it...”
– That is all…
“Good thing Indiana Jones stopped after the third film! I hear there was a script...”
– (via: reddit)
“There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older...”
– David Foster Wallace
“Foreignness was a means of escape—physical, psychological and moral. In another...”
– Being foreign: The others (via marco)
New Yorker: Edgar Allan Poe and the Economy of... →
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A fascinating look at the life of Edgar Allan Poe
“My whole existence has been the merest Romance,” Poe wrote, the year before his death, “in the sense of the most utter unworldliness.” This is Byronic bunk. Poe’s life was tragic, but he was about as unworldly as a bale of cotton. Poe’s world was Andrew Jackson’s America, a world of banking collapse, financial panic, and grinding...
“A lot of people have misinterpreted David Foster Wallace as a kind of postmodern...”
– Glenn Kenny, Slant Magazine
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through...”
– Ellen Goodman
