September 2010
90 posts
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
– Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938)
Theodore Roosevelt was once shot at during a campaign rally in Wisconsin. The bullet penetrated his glasses case and a manuscript, just missing his right lung. Being an expert hunter he decided to stay and give his speech since he wasn’t coughing up blood. His speech lasted nearly an hour.
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you...
– Markus Zusak (via loveyourchaos)
(This was The Kite Runner for me, most recently.)
“How to Drive Drunk”
I spent three days looking at this. →
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