February 2012
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“You’ll meet her, she’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many...”
– Pan’s Labyrinth
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We were sitting on the ground leaning — I against him, he against a wall — inside a complex of austere, white cubicles. Military presence was heavy and I was to meet a childhood friend who’d been enrolled. I hadn’t seen him in years; he must have grown up handsomely.
A message came on over the loudspeaker system: something about Global Warming, but from the announcer’s tone I gathered only that...
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The 9th Doctor
Doctor: Do you know like we were saying? About the Earth revolving?
[The Doctor walks back to where Rose is standing]
Doctor: It’s like when you were a kid, the first time they tell you that the world’s turning, and you just can’t quite believe it because everything looks like it’s standing still. I can feel it.
[The Doctor takes Rose’s hand]
Doctor: The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling ‘round the sun at 67 thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We’re falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go…
[The Doctor releases Rose’s hand]
January 2012
14 posts
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mother ocean.
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
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“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the...”
– Dracula, Bram Stoker
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“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with...”
– Zora Neale Hurston; Their Eyes Were Watching God
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December 2011
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“Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars....”
– The Sound and The Fury
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November 2011
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Hazy and muddled. We struggle to bring insight and make connections; we desperately seek out understanding. It’s exciting how once in a lifetime someone will have an epiphany and create a wonderful new idea. That is the very life and truth of humanity. I wonder if when you die all of the things you have always questioned about come to you and everything in your mind is illuminated and...
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October 2011
8 posts
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“I know a girl who cries when she practices violin, cause each note sounds so...”
– bright eyes
Comme Overload.
pebbleshooper:
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“O Merlin in your crystal cave,
Deep in the diamond of the day,
Will there ever...”
– Edwin Muir
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September 2011
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Oh Lord, I have sinned
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“In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the...”
– David N. Elkins, 1998, Beyond Religion