February 2012
“In letters as in love, to imagine is to address oneself to what is not. To...”
– Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
“That words have edges is an insight most vivid, then, for the reader or writer...”
– Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
“Literacy de-sensorializes words and reader. A reader must disconnect himself...”
– Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
“No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of...”
– Thomas Jefferson
Russians Reach Antarctic Lake Sealed 15M Years →
(Newser) – Russian scientists have successfully drilled through more than two miles of ice to reach a “lost world” under Antarctica, according to a Russian newswire. Lake Vostok has been sealed off for some 15 million years. While some fear it has been contaminated by kerosene and other materials used by the Russian...
“A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at...”
– The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (via letthetableswaitforyou)