January 2011
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O my love, O my love,
In the night of fire and snow,
Save me from evil.
—W. H. Auden, “XXXIV”
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“Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You...”
– Charles Warnke, You Should Date an Illiterate Girl
WOW. (But I have a feeling this might be why I’m usually single.)
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“In short, Manhattan appears to be an extension of the internet, or vice versa.”
– How novels came to terms with the internet | Books | The Guardian (via housingworksbookstore)
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McNally Jackson Bookmongers: Herman Melville Likes... →
mcnallyjackson:
I am reblogging this so hard.
towirr:
Or as he calls them, in order, in two chapters of White Jacket:
beards
the crop
suburbs of the chin
homeward-bounders
fly-brushes
long, trailing moss hanging from the bough of some aged oak
love-curls
Winnebago locks
carroty bunches
…
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Close Read: Holding Giffords’s Hand : The New... →
What I do is for the Christina-Taylor Greens of the world, to help them even a little bit in becoming the Dorwan Stoddards, Daniel Hernandezes, and Patricia Maischs of the future.
newyorker:
peterwknox:
This is a READING REQUIREMENT. Short, beautiful, touching, and tough.
Thanks, Josh.
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And for the first time since coming home, I’m completely happy. It’s strange. Home. How I could wish for it for so long, only to come back and find it gone. To be here, in my technical house, and discover that home is now someplace different.
But that’s not quite right either.
I miss Paris, but it’s not home. It’s more like … I miss this. This warmth over the...
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“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books....”
– Cory Doctorow (via shereadeverything)
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