April 2012
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the24project: Untitled - April Parent →
the24project: This is how you make a life:  Pull talking out of people like a dentist performing a root canal. Hurt them  with the pulling. Haul it out energetically,  spread the talking around you like blankets, until you can’t  hear each other over all the muffled syllables, the too-long vowels. 
Apr 22nd
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the24project: Desdemona - Laura Brown →
Real life is like this: the24project: Desdemona He was a brute and I knew it, real bad news, but I loved the smell of danger, his animal reek. He loved me more, gave me a fistful of it, collecting bruises like love tokens and broken bones like Valentines. My arm, twisted. My…
Apr 22nd
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November 2009
1 post
“Seedlings not planted, / benched perennials withered. / Limit the lament.”
– @pfanderson (via haikuchallenge)
Nov 26th
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August 2008
24 posts
5 tags
“it’s really masculine, phil reading women like a book the way you do...”
– Kennedy, Terry. “For Hatfield, the Radiologist.” Her Soul Beneath the Bone, ed. Leatrice H. Lifshitz. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (c)1988, p. 5.
Aug 28th
“I set out the new shoes for the morning. I work. Nothing will come between me...”
– Skipper, Louie. “Yes, Light.” The Fourth Watch of the Night. Davis, CA: Swan Scythe Press, (c)2001, p. 35.
Aug 27th
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Aug 26th
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“Like a child constantly rebuilding the same Lego structure day after day, I have...”
– Roche, David. The Church of 80% Sincerity. “A Perigee Book.” NY: Penguin, 2008, p. 126.
Aug 25th
4 tags
“‘The angels,’ he said, ‘have no senses; their experience is...”
– Lewis, Clive Staples. C. S. Lewis on Joy. Nelson Publishers, 1998, p. 55.
Aug 24th
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“But still tomorrow builds into my face such island fortresses of silence that...”
– Adonis [‘Ali Ahmad Sa’id]. “The Pages of Day and Night.” The Pages of Day and Night, trans. Samuel Hazo. Evanston, Illinois: Marlboro Press / Northwestern University Press, 1994, p. 11.
Aug 22nd
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3 tags
Aug 21st
7 notes
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“As I “galaxy-gaze” through time upon their diversity of colors,...”
– Tyson, Neil deGrasse. “Onward to the Edge.” Natural History, July 1996. http://research.amnh.org/~tyson/18magazines_onwardtotheedge.php
Aug 19th
3 notes
6 tags
“Other things are changed. Both Mother Darkness and Father Endless are with us...”
– Tepper, Sheri S. Shadow’s End. NY: Bantam Books, (c) 1994, p. 452. 
Aug 18th
7 tags
“Sometimes in dreams my teeth got loose in my mouth … Tinker, Tailor,...”
– Lowell, Robert. “Suicide.” Day by Day. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, (c) 1975, p. 15.
Aug 17th
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Aug 17th
5 notes
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“A boy these days took it for granted that he had work to do, and the men...”
– L’Amour, Louis. “War Party.” Grub Line Rider. NY: Dorchester Publishing / Golden West Literary Agency, (c) 2007/2008, p. 187. ISBN: 978-0-8439-6065-5.
Aug 16th
6 tags
“The chancellor of the university has a privately funded study that he received...”
– Beinhart, Larry. The Librarian. NY: Nation Books, (c) 2004, p. 5. 
Aug 15th
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“What grows wild is doubly beautiful. / What grows wild is a disguise. / Not...”
– Sylvester, Janet. “Goatsbeard. (1997)” Flora Poetica, The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse, ed. Sarah Maguire. London: Chatto and Windus, (c) 2001, p. 81.
Aug 14th
5 tags
“… I still remember a vivid dream I had on October 25, 1971. Swift was a...”
– Grandin, Temple. ”Stairway to Heaven, Religion and Belief.” Thinking in Pictures, and Other Reports from My Life with Autism. NY: Vintage Books, (c) 1995, p. 195.
Aug 13th
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“But Wikipedia is the canonical bee that flies despite scientists’...”
– Zittrain, Jonathan. The Future of the Internet, and How to Stop It. New Haven: Yale University Press, (c) 2008, p. 148.
Aug 12th
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“A moth ate songs — wolfed words! That seems a weird dish — that a...”
– A Feast of Creatures, Anglo-Saxon Riddle-Songs, trans. Craig Williamson. London: Scolar Press, (c)1982, p. 107.
Aug 11th
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“Come on in, please come in, and take some knowledge for free, no, no limit, keep...”
– Beinhart, Larry. The Librarian. NY: Nation Books, (c)2004, p. 72.
Aug 10th
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“Sudden-impact disasters can be viewed as a continuous time sequence of five...”
– Noji, Eric K. “The Nature of Disaster: General Characteristics and Public Health Effects.” The Public Health Consequences of Disasters, ed. EK Noji. NY: Oxford University Press, (c)1997, p. 13.
Aug 10th
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“Peace is not created with a one-time act: the cease-fire, accord, or...”
– Cole, Ronald “Skip”; Crawford, Teresa. Building Peace Through Information and Communications Technologies. ICTs4Peace / United States Institute of Peace (USIP), June 2007. http://www.idealware.org/articles/peace_through_ICTs.php
Aug 10th
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“In trying to win you lose. … everyone loses.”
– Saotome, Mitsugi. Aikido and the Nature of Harmony. http://www.bujindesign.com/aikido-harmony-nature-mitsugi-saotome-p-295.html
Aug 9th
7 tags
“If I become subjective about pain, no matter what causes it, then it becomes...”
– L’Engle, Madeleine. A Circle of Quiet. NY: Crosswicks, (c) 1972, p. 53. Translation: “But no one asked you to be happy. Work!”
Aug 9th
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“Today, man’s thought includes the globe.”
– Buck, Pearl S. “Chapter 8, The Spirit Behind the Weapon.” What America Means to Me. NY: John Day Company, (c) 1943, p. 97.
Aug 9th
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“Perhaps the answer is to be found in a “mosaic of sharing” or partly...”
– Somerville, Margaret. The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit. Toronto, Canada: Anansi Press / Canada Council for the Arts, (c)2006, p. 39.
Aug 9th