December 2010
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Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that’s why I moved to New...
– Ani DiFranco
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Knowing Coves: Rejecting the Language of the... →
zuky:
[ Originally posted on my old blog on July 13, 2009 and cross-posted at Feministe, reposted now in the context of the Tea Party era and the resurfacing of “the immigration debate” and the DREAM Act Congressional showdown. ]
“Obviously every society requires laws, ethical norms, rules of social conduct. But law should elevate society rather than debase it, and the sleight of hand...
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das Unheimliche
“Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I’m always missing someone or someplace or something, I’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing.” - lizzie wurtzel, prozac nation.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny →
The Uncanny (Ger. Das Unheimliche — literally, “un-home-ly”, but ideomatically, “scary”, “creepy”) is a Freudian concept of an instance where something can be familiar, yet foreign at the same time, resulting in a feeling of it being uncomfortably strange.
I believe in such cartography- to be marked by nature, not just to label...
– from The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje