"Besides hard science, there is soft science, the science of shadow areas and story areas, and you do wrong to deny it the name." --R A Lafferty, "Cliffs that Laughed"

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"Most of us believe that car accidents are caused by inept drivers. Not true!."

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(facebook five years ago)

Bunch appreciation.

A story that is the story of our failure to make a story, can only be told in terms of heroes & monsters.

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(via irene llorca arrando on pinterest)

Sara, sara.

"...I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't

you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write"

--W S Merwin

"Paul Oppenheimer writes that the sonnet, developed by a twelfth-century lawyer out of a folk song form, helped develop the modern idea of the isolated, three-dimensional and self-sufficient self. What might it mean about the twenty-first century idea of self that we are so increasingly captivated by the villanelle?" --Annie Finch

Famous bridge.

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(via)

"My understanding of this budding genre “hardvapour” is it’s the Trans-Siberian Railway deportation of vaporwave from Pacific Asian culture, transferring to a bus that breaks down, on foot finding a city where illicit activity reigns anarchy supreme, and creating a chem lab is the only viable “next step.” Maybe you’re in Georgia, too. Or Mykolaiv. Obviously, this chem lab is created in an abandoned factory basement, where people host violent parties with their shirts off, while the night is fueled by krokodil, vodka, and koke. Marked by heavy bass, hard industrial tinge, and atmospheric rave melodies, “hardvapour” musically functions either in the realm of flinging fists or neck-snapping head-nods. Not to mention a variety of “WARNING” samples, claiming the music being fronted is potentially hazardous to the listener’s health, as if radiation or contaminant will emit from headphones/speakers. Shit, and the culture itself stems from grainy cemented surveillance visuals, menacingly broken English, and threatening the sale of Blu-ray DVD player for CC number (including the three-digit code on back of card, please). So you find room in that chem lab so the new label AntiFur can move in." --C Monster

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(by david worthington on facebook)

"This also returned me to one of my favoured go-to analogies for the current situation, namely, civilization as the post-impact Titanic. In a comforting manner I’ve reminded myself that the EU referendum probably amounts to little more than a rearrangement of the deckchairs or orchestral music on the sinking Titanic, or, perhaps more accurately, it is a change with regard to where and with whom one stands. But there is little point rocking the boat when the boat is already sinking. As to whether we are nearer the aft, the stern, the lifeboats, or how much time we have left, all that we can know with much confidence is that the ship will sink. The only meaningful thing that we have any significant control over is how we behave towards one another as it goes down!" --Pagan Metaphysics blog

"Sunitinib costs approximately $466 / capsule."

"jetztzeit- Walter Benjamin uses this term in his ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’ to describe a notion of time that is ripe with revolutionary possibility, time that has been detached from the continuum of history. ...Benjamin contrasts jetztzeit with the ‘homogeneous empty time’ of the ruling class, which is history written from the perspective of the victors..." --Oxford reference

The dead don't go away.

"Briefly put, Griffiths argues that there are three types of last things possible for creatures: annihilation, simple stasis, and repetitive stasis." --Kenneth Oakes on Decreation (2014)

11 cat islands.

"However, the last three syllables from the third line are always omitted in sijo singing, for some reason lost in antiquity. The meaning of the poem is not affected by this truncation, as these three syllables are usually only verbal inflections." --The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Mise-en-abyme.

"Dude, Algiers killed the momentum here resignation." --from the machine translation of Perec's long palindrome

(from Phase IV [1974], via darklyeuphoric on tumblr)

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13- & 17-year locusts.

"Languages whose 'words' could, for example, instantaneously convey the sensation of flying." --Jon Rappoport

Cassini Regio, on Iapetus (via wikipedia)

(by Contumacy Singh, on Flickr)

"...renowned as a premier thereminist..."

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