February 2012
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On Exhorting Feeling
Sometimes there was only a social custom in mind—as when a person wished to feel sad at a funeral. But other times there was a desperate inner desire to avoid pain. Herbert Gold describes a man’s effort to prevent himself from feeling love for a wife he no longer has:
“He fought against love, he fought against grief, he fought against anger. They were all linked. He reminded...
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Amanda: I think a little bag of truffles is much better than a large bag
because your marginal utility of each truffle is greater
and you don't feel bad about getting fat
and you savor each truffle
the way you cherish the person whom you're giving the truffles to
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“I find it slightly ethnocentric that whenever Japanese appropriate some aspect...”
– Beauty Up: Exploring Contemporary Japanese Body Aesthetics (via rolston)
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The Anger of A First Generation Student (at... →
anniepology:
wellesleyunderground:
#classism@Wellesley.
Thanks to @iambeauchamp for messaging this to us via twitter. This piece was written by current Wellesley student Emily Loftis and it highlights the realities of classism at Wellesley College from the perspective of a first generation student. Please share your experiences as well by submitting here or emailing us at...
January 2012
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Amanda: i hate the css profile
i want to kill everything
but i'm glad that i'm doing it now instead of later
omg doing this with my sister is so great
she has an aptitude for looking at billions of numbers
i'm going to make her do my taxes in the future
Alex: ...this is like
child exploitation
i'm picturing a sweatshop
where kids are forced to do taxes
and you are walking around with a duster in your hand
ready to beat up a kid at the first sight of an arithmetic error
the room is drafty
kids are wearing thin shirts and no shoes
you are wearing a leather coat and boots
outside is snowing
the gusty wind pounds the thin window panes
inside is the sound of silence
only the croaky moan of pencil against paper
there flickering light is a symphony of despair
the smell of sulfur is a poem of sorrow
inside the decimals and numbers are the dreams of childhood
the stings of frozen fingers are the only constants
and in their tiny worlds
there are no variables
for tomorrow is a reprise of yesteryear
and memory is a weight they do not bear
the end
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25 Lives
ventiii:
Came across this little story on Livejournal when I was looking for inspiration for my creative writing class. Thanks to Toni’s blog, I remembered how much I loved this.
25 LIVES by tongari
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“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love...”
– Voltaire (via slekes)
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Why I Resigned from The Good Men Project
“All of this behavior reflects two things: men’s genuine fear of being challenged and confronted, and the persistence of the stereotype of feminists as being aggressive, wrathful, “man-bashers.” The painful thing about all this, of course, is that no man is in any real physical danger on the internet— or even in real life — from feminists. Women are regularly beaten and raped — even on...
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“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Kafka (via soul-surfer)
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“Never apologize for what you feel. It’s like saying sorry for being real.”
– Anonymous (via missfolly)
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Watcha lovely wintry mix made by my friend Constance.
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“Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any...”
– Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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December 2011
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“There is nothing more tedious, puerile, and inhumane than this; yet it is also...”
– Virginia Woolf, on love.
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“no woman is required to build the world by destroying herself”
– rabbi sofer (via robinpark)
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If I Were A Rich White Dude →
Jeff Yang’s response to Gene Marks’ now-infamous ”If I Were A Poor Black Kid”
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“A few years ago, the son of a visiting friend did remark that “Santa” wasn’t...”
– tongue-in-cheek, Jeff Yang, “Tao Jones: The ‘Grinch Teach’”
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“What am I in the eyes of most people, a nonentity, an eccentric, or an...”
– Van Gogh
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majorelleblue:
if you do not love me, then why must you hold me so?
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Why Iceland Should Be in the News →
November 2011
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Saudade
(Portuguese): The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost. Another linguist describes it as a “vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist.”
It’s interesting that saudade accommodates in one word the haunting desire for a lost love, or for an imaginary, impossible, never-to-be-experienced love. Whether the object has been lost...
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After we concluded that all MIT men channel...
Amanda: I think Persephone is a really pretty name for a daughter, but what kind of parent would I be if I named my daughter that..............
Cecilia: I don't think I'd wish my daughter into a Persephone/Hades relationship though ...
Amanda: Yeah that's the thing... no one really wishes that on their daughters...
Cecilia: And it's not like Zeus/Apollo who are superficially better are actually better options. If anything, the marriages are less fulfilling. Hephaestus = greater than all: rich, faithful, and a doormat.
Amanda: I just laughed out loud
Cecilia: You know you go to Wellesley when ...
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“My perfect date night: I pick you up. In my Kia Sorrento. You get in. There’s...”
– Aziz Ansari on his perfect date (x)