If you find my long sentences annoying, please know that that gives me an enormous amount of pleasure.
— Jamaica Kincaid, from Monday night’s live Writers at Work interview at 92nd Street Y. (via theparisreview)
(via therumpus)
[A]lmost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of ‘psst’ that you usually can’t even hear because you’re in such a rush to or from something important you’ve tried to engineer.
— David Foster Wallace (via maxistentialist)
More annotated passages from As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
“Weird.”
“My mother is a human.”
“That sucks, but that awful smell is gone.”
Happy Thanksgiving from the Bluth Family!
Motherfuckers will read a book that’s 1/3rd elvish, but put two sentences in spanish and they (white people) think we’re taking over
— Junot diaz on “do you think you alienate readers when you use spanish in your books?” (via iamincoherent)
(via shelbysbutt)
The Places Where America’s Drones Are Striking, Now on Instagram
Technology has countervailing effects. We can send a battle by air to a land we have never set foot in, laying previously unimaginable distance between us and our wars. But at the same time we can see on a device in our pocket a satellite picture of these places so remote. Maybe, Bridle writes, the instant connectivity of our world can be a platform not just for faster information, but for deeper empathy for people who live a world away.
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Heartwarming inscription found by Kate in the book The Art of Being Happily Married:
We’ll write our own book ❤, P
You guys realize whoever that was inscribed to gave that book away, right?
