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December 2009
Lies I've told my 3 year old recently
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deerfoxwitch:
by Raul Gutierrez
Trees talk to each other at night.
All fish are named either Lorna or Jack.
Before your eyeballs fall out from watching too much TV, they get very loose.
Tiny bears live in drain pipes.
If you are very very quiet you can hear the clouds rub against the sky.
The moon and the sun had a fight a long time ago.
Everyone knows at least one...
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Still Kicking Up Her Heels on 42nd Street →
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NYT profile of 105 year-old doris eaton —- the last surviving ziegfeld girl
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Man’s life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if...
– Hermann Hesse in Gertrude (1910) (via predatorywaspobserver) (via libraryland)
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"If Only Polar Bears Could Use Twitter!"
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“Unsure how this melting polar bear ice sculpture created by artist Mark Coreth fits in Next Nature mythology. The art piece was presented last week in Copenhagen and is sponsored by WWF to create an awareness on the human impact on the climate. Once the ice sculpture has melted – which should take a day or ten – a metal skeleton remains that remotely reminds of the...
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The whole world keeps holiday; the age-long curse of war has been put aside;...
– Aelius Aristides, Greek orator, writing during the Pax Romana, 2nd century C.E. A time which, according to Edward Gibbon, was “the period…during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous.”
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This kind of reading suggests that behind it lies a different kind of thinking....
– Why Don’t we actually read anymore? (Denise Pires - Dancing Uphill) (via rachelmercer) (via libraryland)
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