February 2011
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January 2011
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“this is the story of the right book, or books. we each have one life, one share...”
– brenda walker’s reading by moonlight: how books saved a life (via helplesslittlething)
“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get...”
– Woody Allen (via helplesslittlething)
word·ling: whore →
wordling:
It’s only my second post and already I’m spewing obscenities. You might notice that I tend towards simple, rather salt-of-the-earth words; this coincides with my love of the beautiful, ordinary, overlooked things in life.
Whore /hɔr/ n.: a woman who engages in …
“A sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the...”
– William Wordsworth, “Tintern Abby”
“Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. We don’t...”
– John Green (via abodycomingthroughtherye)
“…but I think it’s funny that your emphasis is on the Schwa.”
– This was said by my friend Sarah, aka toomuchlifeinyoumydear. Firstly, she is amazing. Secondly, this quote is amazingly funny, but some of you won’t understand why, so I will explain: the Schwa is a vowel that is *always* unstressed, or in other words, is never emphasized. EXCEPT BY ME. MUAHAHA....
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I am Sarah, hear me roar! As the self-proclaimed leader of these ragtag misfits, I begin this blog with no idea whether it will last through Winter quarter. As well as being a serial starter of things never finished, I am a Literary Journalism major/Linguistics minor, raging Anglophile and not…
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
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Awesome Thing #324: Laughing at a stranger with... →
thought for the day
Being human is imbuing life with meaning. So what if we’re conjuring a beautiful universe to comfort ourselves? So what if we want to believe in God and goodness? I reserve that right, and am happy because of it. Boo to cynics and skeptics and scoffers. I hope that someday everyone feels a fraction of the elation I do when I walk down the beach at sunset and know everything is as it should...
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“This is how it works: you peer inside yourself, you take the things you like and...”
– Regina Spektor, “On the Radio”
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Word·ling
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“This here blog is dedicated to our fellow logophiles, an abode for succulent mots: silken words, flinty words, the words that slay and salve and seduce our souls. And also silly words, useless utterances that wiggle and leap and delight. Here we shall compose odes to the mundane and fantastic, to monkey and magnanimous, to fumbling and escapade and...
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