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Bev, can we count our thoughts?

Noam Chomsky to his assistant at the Vatican, http://chronicle.com/article/What-Its-Like-to-Be-Noam/234667

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In need of some green and trees. This city is bringing me down.

Yosemite’s beauty is hard to describe, it’s quiet, peaceful, yet overwhelming grand and powerful.  

**Click the images to see the caption and larger view**

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May I use this*, as a screenshot, in a collection of poems? pleasedontsqueezetheshaman

Blue and black, white and gold, blue and black, white and gold.

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I feel like this is a crash course.

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It is becoming more and more difficult, even senseless, for me to write an official English. And more and more my own language appears to me like a veil that must be torn apart in order to get at the things (or the Nothing-ness) behind it. Grammar and Style. To me they seem to have become as irrelevant as a Victorian bathing suit or the imperturbability of a true gentleman. A mask…Is there any reason why that terrible materiality of the word surface should not be capable of being dissolved?

--Samuel Beckett in a letter to Axel Kaun explaining translation and duality of language

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David Foster Wallace’s copy of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce. 

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Don't be an idiot

"To satisfy ignorance is to put off writing until tomorrow--or to make it impossible." --Gilles Deleuze, Difference & Repetition

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“Women who are fat are said to have ‘let themselves go.’ The very phrase connotes a loosening of restraints. Women in our society are bound. In generations past, the constriction was accomplished by corsets and girdles…. Women today are bound by fears, by oppression, and by stereotypes that depict large women as ungainly, unfeminine, and unworthy of appreciation…. Above all, women must control themselves, must be careful, for to relax might lead to the worst possible consequence: being fat.”

“Letting Ourselves Go: Making Room for the Fat Body in Feminist Scholarship,” by Cecilia Hartley  (via albinwonderland)

This, I think, also applies to the unspoken expectation that women must shave their armpit, leg, and public hair.

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New homes: possibility

You never know what you’ll find in our picture collection. Take a look.

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Favorite

So according to Japan this is what American cops do

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What I'm reading tonight at the MFA Student reading. So. Excite.

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Nice

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More word selections from MALLONE DIES and THE UNNAMABLE

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Here’s a list of words and phrases noted while reading MOLLOY. What fun!

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All I wanna do is upload the audio I have of this guy because he's awesome and Tumblr just keeps telling me "please select and audio file to upload" after I've already uploaded it and it's been processed. I. Don't. Understand. What's. Happening. To. Me.

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Tattoo You

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In Happiness, for your health.