December 2009
100 posts
why the hell would anyone ever move to midsomer.
bloodygood:
(via flickflickflicker)
I would, in a heartbeat. But I would be careful not to make enemies.
“Times are bad.
Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a...”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero (43 BCE)
(astroinquiry, bigfun and libraryland)
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“More people saying what they believe would be a great improvement. Because I...”
– ‘Nero Wolfe’ in ‘Blood Will Tell’ by Rex Stout
Giving myself the santa hat was accidental, I am...
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synecdoche:
I WOULD WALK 500 MILES
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“For some reason, people think that music must tell us only about the pinnacles...”
– Dmitri Shostakovich (via musicophilia)
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“If personal vengeance were the only factor I could, as you suggest, go and stick...”
– ‘Nero Wolfe’ in The Black Mountain by Rex Stout (1954)
do you know what mark twain was doing in the...
ragbag:
answer 1: he was researching material for what would later become the prince and the pauper. TRUE.
answer 2: he was writing his great, great-american-novel the adventures of huckleberry finn. ALSO TRUE.
answer 3: he was penning bawdy elizabethan fanfiction that included the characters: queen elizabeth, william shakespeare, ben johnson, walter raleigh, and—my main squeeze—françois...
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“Reflect upon the rapidity with which all that exists and is coming to be is...”
– marcus aurelius. (via aubade) (via nadej)
