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Dec 28th

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Daily Routines: How writers, artists, and other... →

Good for: Procrastination, history voyeurs, would-be megalomaniacs in search of something to emulate. 

Dec 27th

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“And here is the power she had from the start and her share in the lives of men...”

– Hesiod, writing about Aphrodite, goddess of love, in the Theogony

Dec 25th

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Dec 22nd

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Dec 21st

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Dec 20th

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“Good-by — if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot...”

– Ambrose Bierce’s last words, written in a letter to his niece in 1913 after he decided to leave America to observe the revolution in Mexico. He was never seen again.

Dec 19th

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Dec 16th

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“Dear Mr. Rossellini, I saw your films Open City and Paisan, and enjoyed them...”

– Text of letter from Ingrid Bergman to Italian director Roberto Rossellini. The rest is history.

Dec 13th

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millionsmillions: Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011. Tranströmer worked as a psychologist for most of his life and has been married for over fifty years to Monica Tranströmer, who became his voice to the world after he suffered a stroke in 1990. The stroke deprived him of most of his speech and left him unable to use his right arm. But Tomas...

Dec 13th

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Dec 12th

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Old drive-in movie ad against PDA, reminding young lovers not to “allow his bite to effect [sic] your conduct while in this theatre”

Dec 11th

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dieupleuredeslarmesdefoutre: Cesária Évora...

Dec 10th

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Why do you come here, when you know I’ve...

Dec 10th

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“I am, of all who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I...”

– Michelangelo, quote found in Theodore Zeldin’s An Intimate History of Humanity

Dec 10th

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"Today I Learned" from Reddit →

Good for: Procrastinating, amassing a knowledge that is vast and useless (except for providing witty icebreakers at cocktail parties).

Dec 9th

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Dec 9th

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I just want to be sure  When I will come to you ...

Dec 8th

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Bazarov vs. Odintsova

“So you have noticed reticence…as you expressed it, constraint?” “Yes.” Bazarov got up and went to the window. “And would you like to know the reason of this reticence? Would you like to know what is passing inside me?” “Yes,” repeated Madame Odintsov, with a sort of dread she did not at that time understand. “And you will not be...

Dec 8th

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theatlanticvideo: An Original Newsreel About the Bombing of Pearl Harbor Featuring footage from the U.S. Navy, this newsreel depicts the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.  Produced by Castle Films, the film is available from the FDR Presidential Library’s collection in the Internet Archive.

Dec 7th

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Be Aware: Nick Kristof's Anti-Politics

thenewinquiry: By Elliott Prasse-Freeman “How can you watch people die in the streets?” “You don’t look, you close your eyes.” Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer prize-winning New York Times journalist, is often hailed as a defender of the downtrodden, courageously reporting those man-made events that “shock the conscience.” As he traipses the globe to report on its most grisly moments, Kristof is...

Dec 7th

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“War with Japan. Get to office.”

– a telegram delivered to an Associated Press editor who was at the Redskins-Eagles football game at Washington’s Griffith Stadium on Dec. 7, 1941. (via washingtonpoststyle)

Dec 7th

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thelifeguardlibrarian: manasto: A Good Man is...

Dec 5th

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Last Notes: The wild, sublime music that composers... →

Making things is a better way to spend your time than staring at the wall contemplating what little time you’ve got left.

Dec 5th

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Dec 4th

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Jean-Michel Folon's illustrations for Kafka's... →

fuckyeahfranzkafka: “Kafka’s suggestion as to how his story might be illustrated, if it had to be illustrated—not, pace Nabokov, with an entomologically or coleopterically correct beetle… but with a picture of a man lying in bed.” -Michael Hofmann

Dec 4th

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Dec 2nd

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“This capacity consciously to behave stupidly is an enviable virtue of strong and...”

– Dmitri Pisarev, in his essay “Bazarov” on the protagonist of Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Children

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