This Mundane Ruin

• 2012-01-25

  

  freshphotons:

  “The celebrated evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould once called Fritz Goro “the most influential photographer that science journalism (and science in general) has ever known.” LIFE’s science editor, Gerard Piel, praised Goro’s extraordinary gift for capturing “abstractions, of the big ideas from the genetic code to plate tectonics.” Here, LIFE.com presents Goro’s most striking, imaginative, technically accomplished, unsettlingly graphic, and frequently downright beautiful science pictures. Above: Metal samples studied in a glass vacuum, 1946.” Via.

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  Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn’t slept at all.

  — “What Is The What,” by Dave Eggers.

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  This Day Comes But Once

  Perhaps my struggle can be best conveyed by Woody Allen’s “Manhattan.” The imagery evokes a world you would like to live in, even of the people in it are hard to live with. Every single day, I must not drag my feet through the mud, but instead, rise up and excentuate my every Promethean impulse towards a happier Self. Life is a deep woodlands. My childhood has been not just a broken panorama, but a fogged-out landscape from which occasional memories appear like isolated trees…the kind that look as if they might like to grab and eat you. To what do I aspire? Of what do I think to flicker away the colossal myths and stir my memory of why I am here, and why I want to stay here? Well, I am doing it right now — this rainbow, this cluster of trees called writing, the tenuous touch of words, the whorls of energized, drizzling insanity. And such madness can never be contained. Not now. Not ever. And I can look to this moment and know that this glorious day comes but once for me to chase my existential flesh and blood.

• 2011-01-18

  so rad

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  Writing to the sound of rain beating on my roof like scores of nails. So indiscreet. But strangely settling.

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  Parrish

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  wordboner:

  If You Don’t Do Shit (get on a tee)

  Such a good find.

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  Write one leaf about something you’ve done to celebrate or commemorate the holiday.

  writeoneleaf:

  Posted on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but you may choose any holiday you like, of course.

  I wrote and read this past holiday season!

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  tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?

  I would go to Berlin. Or Dakar, Senegal. Or Thailand. Or India.

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  I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

  — ~Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit