January 2011
13 posts
“So you mustn’t be frightened…if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
(via recycled-words)
☾: Rare (lost) Words →
palelimbs:
tristifical - causing to be sad or mournful. eternitarian - one who believes in the eternity of the soul. cosmogyral - whirling round the universe. siagonology - study of jaw-bones. autexousious - exercising or possessing free will. nepheliad - cloud-nymph. gardeviance - chest for…
“I can remember speaking to a 12-year-old boy, a football player, and I asked...”
– Shakesville: “My liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman.” (via exhibitnumber1)
20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
seenecdoche:
(can’t help but haha at #6)
youmightfindyourself:
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a...
Children, Cover Your Eyes! « Ben Marcus →
Watch930:
250.000 multicoloured balls bouncing down the streets of San Francisco
Top 10 Blogs for Writers 2011- The Winners | Write... →
“1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel...”
– Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to writers (via bearbearpdx)
