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In Defense of Cursive

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:03:46 -0400

newyorker:

“A knowledge of cursive may not be “relevant” to the modern world, but it is essential to a visceral sense of the past, and an ability to examine the literature, correspondence, and history contained in original documents.”

As many U.S. schools begin to phase out the teaching of cursive, Judith Thurman writes in defense of script: http://nyr.kr/MLREak

neil-gaiman: If you write fiction, you may want to watch this...

Sat, 19 May 2012 09:11:27 -0400

neil-gaiman:

If you write fiction, you may want to watch this video and listen to this song.

It’s the sort of thing that cries out for people to write stories to accompany it…

12 Famous Book Titles That Come From Poetry

Sat, 19 May 2012 08:55:42 -0400

12 Famous Book Titles That Come From Poetry:

amandaonwriting:

1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - “I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!

2. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh - The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

…I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

3. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

4. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - “To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough” by Robert Burns

But little Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often askew,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!

5. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy - “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray

Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife
Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray;
Along the cool sequester’d vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

6. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust - “Sonnet 30″ by William Shakespeare

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:

7. Endless Night by Agatha Christie - “Auguries of Innocence” by William Blake

Every night and every morn,
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night,
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.

8. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway - “Meditation XVII” by John Donne

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

9. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers - “The Lonely Hunter” by William Sharp

O never a green leaf whispers, where the green-gold branches swing:
O never a song I hear now, where one was wont to sing.
Here in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still,
But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

10. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou - “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar

It is not a carol of joy or glee,
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core,
But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings —
I know why the caged bird sings!

11. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald - “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats

Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.

12. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster - Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Passage to India!
Struggles of many a captain–tales of many a sailor dead!
Over my mood, stealing and spreading they come,
Like clouds and cloudlets in the unreach’d sky.

theniftyfifties: Photo by Frances McLaughlin-Gill, 1950.

Tue, 15 May 2012 20:10:02 -0400

theniftyfifties:

Photo by Frances McLaughlin-Gill, 1950.

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Fri, 04 May 2012 22:36:36 -0400

Tyler Knott: Typewriter Series Print Sale!

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:30:45 -0400

Tyler Knott: Typewriter Series Print Sale!:

tylerknott:

Hello my friends. So, after getting SO very many emails, ask messages and notes requesting that I sell prints of the Typewriter Series poems, I decided it was time that I just start doing exactly that. Here’s the deal, and I hope this works for everyone:

I will be selling 8x10 or 8x12 prints on…

"Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison...."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:35:26 -0400

“Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have the integrity to stand alone.

A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.”

- Osho (via nirvikalpa)

carmellobello: Even in the 1870s, humans were obsessed with...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:11:36 -0400

carmellobello:

Even in the 1870s, humans were obsessed with ridiculous photos of cats

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frankie-et-lola: perfection <3

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:34:34 -0400

frankie-et-lola:

perfection <3

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theniftyfifties: Audrey Hepburn by Bob Willoughby

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:33:16 -0400

theniftyfifties:

Audrey Hepburn by Bob Willoughby

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Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:33:06 -0400

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Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:32:21 -0400

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“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”

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Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:31:06 -0400

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Mystical Forest Door, Minnesota

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