January 2010
8 posts
“Marco enters a city; he sees someone in a square living a life or an instant...”
– Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities
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The devil has taken many shapes in men’s world. It is far too often that a man identifies what appears to be wholly wicked, one with no remorse or no sign of goodness, as the evil extreme. But it’s always much more complicated than that. And it is almost always a woman.
He was convinced that she was the devil. At moments she would entice him and lure him with compliments. She would give him hope...
Say it out loud, part 1
I love a good onomatopoeia!
littlepotato:
nsomn:
When I have to wait for late students (which is every day), I usually kill time by making lists. Here is a list of onomatopoeia in Spanish. Read them out loud, and remember to roll your Rs.
to lisp: cecear (pronounced with a soft Spanish th, a one-word joke)
to babble: balbucear
to whisper: susurrar
to grumble: refunfuñar*
to purr:...
“The tough mind is sharp and penetrating, breaking through the crust of legends...”
– I know… technically I’m a day late.
Martin Luther King Jr. (via little-fighter) (via guerrillamamamedicine) (via curate) (via unburyingthelead)
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Los Angeles, I’m Yours- The Decemberist
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“Our belief that a person takes part in an unknown life which his or her love...”
– Marcel Proust
Swann’s Way
….and I though women liked uniforms simply because they were sexy.
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
I can never sufficiently express how much this description blows my mind.
A dull wash of sunlight spilled into his room and covered everything in a light gray dust. He cocked his head awkwardly, trying to get a glimpse of the clock without disturbing the rest of his body, leaving his poor neck to bear all the weight. It was an hour after his normal wake-time. With hopeless disappointment (for who could he blame but himself for not setting the alarm properly?),...