April 2012
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January 2012
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MIRRORINGS: The late great Lucy Grealy on her...
lostangelesca:
There was a long period of time, almost a year, during which I never looked in a mirror. It wasn’t easy, for I’d never suspected just how omnipresent are our own images. I began by merely avoiding mirrors, but by the end of the year I found myself with an acute knowledge of the reflected image, its numerous tricks and wiles, how it can spring up at any moment: a glass tabletop,...
December 2011
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I thought the trucks were too heavy, that’s why they sank the road.
– Mum, re: roadworks on Coronation Drive
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I thought you said you had a small car. So why are these pictures taking so long...
– Mum, 7th Nov
November 2011
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September 2011
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I know what conscience is, to begin with. It is not what you told me it was. It...
– Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde
May 2011
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The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;...
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
February 2011
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Mamihlapinatapai
“A look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin.”
The most succinct word.
January 2011
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A possible alternative to drop.io →
December 2010
3 posts
You have to choose your future regrets.
October 2010
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Shaving Cream and Heart Attacks and Learning When... →
Introspective article on self-conscious fear.