February 2012
All my essays are turning into one
about Bildungsroman and ethical education, its relationship to aesthetics
Dear Mr Dickens
I love your books. I love your authorial prescence as it impedes every movement of plot, arc, and character. I love A Tale of Two Cities. When I read Hard Times I made everyone listen to me talk about it. Bleak House has made me cry more than I care to admit.
Oliver Twist though? Like….what is up with how bad this is?
seriously.
Aya
18th Century Careers: Interview with Anni, a...
18thcentury:
Tell us a little about you and your research.
I’m a historical sociolinguist and something of a philologist at the Department of Modern Languages in the University of Helsinki. I study the interrelatedness of language and society in historical texts, and my research has largely focused on the language and letters of the Bluestocking circle in eighteenth-century England. I’ve edited...
There should be double jeopardy for migraines
I already had mine this week. I don’t need to cry about muons, Ingeborg Bachmann and my twin sister to anymore people. But migraines are terrible house guests. They don’t let you write your dickens paper or take your last physics quiz. They won’t let you read The Pallisers or Anna Karenina OR In search of lost time.
They just sit on you & make noises louder & make you...
CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE
I have a HOT MILK CAKE
and now I want to sit in bed drinking tea reading proust and eating CAKE
oxygenintogold:
“The real love story is between Chris Pine and Tom Hardy. They compare penis size. They walk away from hot ladies to beat the shit out of guys while gazing into each others’ eyes. Pine is told they have work to do. A German with a giant chin steps into the room. “Yes we do”, he says, while trying to conceal his boner. The two men talk about love and commitment – you know what guys...
Vagina Hypnosis LIVE! →
uglyrenaissancebabies:
The brilliant Lulandia took the time to animate one of our most recent posts. I think you’ll find the above link to be quite… mesmerizing.
there’s that vague superstition that swinging a coin above a woman’s stomach will tell the sex of the baby…maybe this is a version of that.
but *wow*
eating pho
in penguin pajamas
with a trollope novel
not even 2 am yet
this is how we save monday
sometimes work is like
“now please!”
and I am like: “I can’t hear you under this blanket while I read victorian novels”
and then work takes away my blanket
“People throwing themselves at people is, like, the basis of civilization.”
– Rayanne Graff, My So-Called LIfe
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the new Terry Prachett book is amaaaaaaazing
gotquirks:
Snuff by Terry Prachett
about 400 pages and easily read in one sitting, if you love Commander Sam Vimes as much as I do.
want to read this sooooo much
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are...”
– Anneli Rufus (via apathie)
#….well #I also think people are assholes #but you know what I mean
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2cnd Annual G Day is this saturday
The method is gin and the object is to be hungover for Plenary
“Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Nazi Party’s burning of books and other literature during WWII (via invincibleteenager)
ahahahahahahahaha
wwnorton:
This valentine’s day, say it with Hegel.
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) February 11, 2012
@ibogost The Pheromonology of Spirit
— W. W. Norton (@wwnorton) February 11, 2012
Sam and I had out first fight tonight.
gotquirks:
I mean, we’ve had disagreements before. We’ve been annoyed or frustrated with each other.
But tonight we actually had a real fight.
…and it was over something really stupid. I mean, so stupid I’m not even going to say because it’s embarrassing.
Ugh.
in my experience lasting through fights is worth so much more than the fights themselves <3
“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running...”
– James Joyce (via absea)
