April 2012
2 posts
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.
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…
November 2009
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“Seedlings not planted, / benched perennials withered. / Limit the lament.”
– @pfanderson (via haikuchallenge)
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.
“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.
5 tags
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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.
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.
3 tags
“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.
3 tags
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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
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
6 tags
“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.
5 tags
“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.
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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.
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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
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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
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“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!”
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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.
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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.