December 2010
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crashinglybeautiful:
“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
—Hunter S. Thompson
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bridelope
The oldest known Teutonic name for ‘Wedding’: lit. ‘the bridal run’, or ‘gallop’, in conducting the bride to her new home. See Grimm, Brautlauf: and cf. BROOSE [“A race on horseback, or on foot, by the young men present at country weddings in the north”].
[late OE. brýdlóp, either:—*brýdhléap, or ad. ON. brúðhlaup, brullaup (Sw. bröllopp, Da. bryllup) wedding; cf. OHG. brûthlauft,...
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"We should always bear in mind that literature is...
Ideas do not matter much in comparison to a book’s imagery and magic. What interests us here is not what Lyovin thought (as he watched a bug creep up a blade of grass) … but that little bug that expresses so neatly the turn, the switch, the gesture of thought.”
— Nabokov, on ideas in literature generally and in Tolstoy particularly (via nytimes)
WatchI have a platypus here
“Many of us spend more waking hours at our desk than anywhere else. In this SciFri video, writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks takes us on a tour of his desk. From lumps of metal to lemurs, ‘the poet laureate of medicine’ describes some of his treasures, his preferred method for writing his books, and why he takes comfort in dense metals.”
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“The babies stay warm, their own temperature regulated by the sympathetic...”
– article on kangaroo care — The Human Incubator
“Surviving an avalanche burial is a race against the clock. Most victims who...”
– Learning to Survive an Avalanche
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