December 2009
31 posts
“Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various...”
– Milan Kundera (via princesskaye) (via quote-book) (via brasilpop) (via motels) (via peachdrug)
“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how...”
– Dee Hock (via robot-heart)
“I’ve seen your crazy eyes and I’ve heard your crazy talk.
You can...”
– Magnet - On Your Side (2003)
“Whenever in a stricter sense there is question of an either/or, one can always...”
– Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Victor Eremita (Either/Or, 1843) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“In a logical system, it is convenient to say that possibility passes over into...”
– Søren Kierkegaard using the pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis (The Concept of Anxiety ,1844) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
The Dark Garden by Traci Burns
starsmending:
They bloomed, apples on my throat. Hot red, the bruisy throb of purple. A path to follow, like crumbs thrown down, but not like crumbs. Like a trail of blood leading to a gruesome scene, but not gruesome. As a teenager I couldn’t kiss a boy without blooming. He’d pluck flowers from my throat with his mouth. I don’t know where I went. I liked the dark garden. We liked it. Blossoms...
Parallax
madeofstarstuff:
An apparent displacement or difference of orientation of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines.
Phonography
jamreilly:
“At the movies, the philosopher Stanley Cavell has observed, we experience our own immortality. How else should we have become pure spirits, present but invisible. With records, one might say, we experience the immortality of others: of the human musicians whose spirits we invoke. In primitive magic the spirits whose powers are enlisted are nature spirits or the spirits of the dead....
“Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the...”
– Nikola Tesla (via little-fighter)
“Sonoluminescence”
– the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound. (via madeofstarstuff)
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in...”
– Albert Einstein (via attirant)
“When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with...”
– René Descartes (via oceanofmind)
“I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent...”
– Timothy Leary (via oceanofmind)
November 2009
58 posts
