March 2012
I’m caught between this inescapable desire to scoop everything - time, theory, science, matter - up into a ball and give it a name in a paragraph (Give it a brief character, summarised, and have it bound and published), and the truth; the fact; the structure, that no matter which prescription I adhere to all I can do with my language and my toys and my spanners is meander, and hope to be...
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I was just browsing through tumblr and I saw...
Somebody describing Woolf as ‘the success of all her intentions’.
I can’t imagine any other description could have pleased her more.
February 2012
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If The Cure play Leeds
it will be amazing
because with Libs and The Strokes it was like fans and then hits bit with The Cure.. Everyone would just be crying.
CRYING.
where is my mind?
orange-appled:
way out in the water, see it swimming
Isomorphismes: Time is Like Space →
Here is the shortest way I can describe the difference between old-school (Newtonian) spacetime and modern, relativistic (Minkowskian) spacetime: in the old view, time was something separate and distinct from space:
Now, in the modern view, time is another kind of thing that’s just like…
Live versions of Joy Division tracks make my room spin
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I’ve been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand, could these sensations make me feeeeel the pleeehsures of a normal maaaaaahn, new sensations barely iquwahdkjn for another day. Lose the spirit lose the feeling, take the shock away.
NUM NUMMMMMMM NUM NUM NUM NUMU NUMMMMMMMM NUM NMUMMMMMN NUM NMUM NMUMMMMMMM
(ugh eargasm, and yes I know there are mistakes)
“Our humanity does not reside in knowing things, or in the power to exploit our...”
– William Golding (via wryer)
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life...”
– Laurence Sterne, “A Sentimental Journey” (via mendaciousangel)
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“But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simple effect upon the mind of man. The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may...
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I want to be able to understand something in a language other than English
I mean, I can speak a little French
and a little Spanish
but I want to be able to comprehend something
See something through the language
wryer:
Cause I’m a crêpe
I’m a weirddough
What the hell am I doughing here
I doughnut belong here
ahahahahha!
“The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own...”
– Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (via beautravail)
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“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via moldavia)
