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Vogue Italia, February 1999.

Ph. Tim Walker

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i just remembered when i was stranded in two european airports with no seats on my flights that i prebooked months and months in advance and the only person i told in my family was my older sister bc i didn’t want to worry anybody else. and i was like look if i don’t make it back. i’m just stuck here now. i just live in Zurich now. and it’s up to you to get me back.

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“But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.”

— Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

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more pics from the soviet metelitsa ski team in 1988. they covered 1,420 km of antarctic tundra in 57 days, while most of the women were in their 50s!

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unfortunately it appears that i'm some kind of insane person

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Clocked out

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in a horrible terrible no good very bad mood.

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rates adjusted for inflation in the peanuts-verse

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Stop giving fathers redemption arcs. That old man sucks and you know it

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Murmur, Cameron Barnett

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“She wasn’t crying because of the life she led: because, never having led any other, she’d accepted that with her that was just the way things were. But I think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling.”

— Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

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― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

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calling in to work sick with a “weird dream”