December 2010
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I still believe the most beautiful alphabet was created by the Sinhalese. The...
– Michael Ondaatje, Running In The Family (via thebronzemedal)
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on the n train
last week, i made the mistake of reading joyce carol oates’ personal history essay on her husband’s death (subscription required) from the new yorker on a very crowded local n train home. this was a mistake because as i sat and lurched, very slowly, home, i started crying. and the sort of crying where tears just stream down your face but you’re eerily quiet. like, if it was the...
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You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you,...
– Richard Siken (via leukocytes)
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The real-life Swedish murder that inspired Stieg... →
It is not unusual for street prostitutes to be murdered, but the mutilation made this case different. The case, known in Sweden as styckmordet (the ‘cutting up murder’), gave rise to an almost unprecedented public outrage. It has spawned four books, several television documentaries and countless newspaper and academic articles in Sweden over the years.
reblogged for MA!
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They have imagined living in unattainably expensive houses pictured in magazines...
– Alain de Botton