August 2010
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“La peor forma de extrañar a alguien es estar sentado a su lado y saber que nunca...”
– Gabriel García Márquez (via sinnumero) (via coolistheessence)
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Excerpts from Gautier's "A Study of Hands"
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Imperia
A sculptor showed to me one day A hand, a Cleopatra’s lure, Or an Aspasia’s, cast in clay, Of masterwork a fragment pure….
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Lacenaire
Strange contrast was the severed hand Of Lacenaire, the murderer dead, Soaked in a powerful essence, and Near by upon a cushion spread.
Letting a morbid fancy win, I touched, despite my loathing sane, The cold,...
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Ant Hill Garnet
“Arizona pyrope garnet is called ant hill garnet because ants bring up the smaller crystals from below ground and deposit them in the ant hill when building or remodeling.
Ant hill garnets are recognized as possessing the finest bright ruby-red color of the garnet family.
During the 1800’s Navajos in this locale used the water-worn and rounded ant Hill garnet crystals as bullets.
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“Karl Popper, the great philosopher of science, once divided the world into two...”
– Jonah Lehrer, http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/06/clocks_and_clouds.php
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“Y te amo a muerte, te amo; si pudiera
bajo los cielos negros te comiera
el...”
– from “Transfusión,” by Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938)
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“This moment. It is quite round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I...”
– Ivich in “The age of reason” by Jean Paul Sartre (via petitessedespassions) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“I don’t want to know, but I would like to know
it all from your own...”
– Gabriela Mistral, “Electra in the Mist,” transl. Randall Couch
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“The past writes the present, for sure, but the present always returns the favor.”
– Kazim Ali, “Write Something on My Wall: Body, Identity, and Poetry”
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