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"[America] no longer has the attention span to deal with any twenty-first-century crisis. We live in an economy that is immensely complex and we are completely at the mercy of the small group of people who understand it—who incidentally often happen to be the same people who built these wildly complex economic systems. We have to trust these people to do the right thing, but we can’t, because, well, they’re scum. Which is kind of a big problem, when you think about it."

- Matt Taibbi (via theorthodoxheretic)

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"People of color, women, and gays — who now have greater access to the centers of influence that ever before — are under pressure to be well-behaved when talking about their struggles. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner: newspapers love to describe words or deeds as “racially charged” even in those cases when it would be more honest to say “racist”; we agree that there is rampant misogyny, but misogynists are nowhere to be found; homophobia is a problem but no one is homophobic. One cumulative effect of this policed language is that when someone dares to point out something as obvious as white privilege, it is seen as unduly provocative. Marginalized voices in America have fewer and fewer avenues to speak plainly about what they suffer; the effect of this enforced civility is that those voices are falsified or blocked entirely from the discourse."

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Teju Cole.

Boom.

(via mehreenkasana)

Became a fan of Cole’s simply by the urging from The Guardian to follow his twitter feed. Looking to pick up Open City at the next moment I’m in between books.

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Spaces

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As the long week draws to a close, a Saturday morning beckons with spaces on my mind.

A space to drive to in the morning to verify it is good enough for a wedding photoshoot on Sunday. If not, continue seeking.

The spaces on and by the white, hanging lacquered bridge that is seen every time you look southward to the lake as you drive down Gardiner, where an engagement session is to take place at dusk. Thinking about what colour of the sky we are going to see tomorrow, overcast or blue? The bride to be phoned us yesterday from a shop: “which colour umbrella should I get in case it rains?”

“Hmmm. What colour is your outfit?”

“Blue and grey. But they only have baby blue, red and pink.”

“The baby blue.”

But what I really need is a space, oh of maybe 30 or so minutes, to enjoy a warming morning coffee and finish the last 9 pages of Crime and Punishment that remain. To read and then to jump onto the iPad to read everything ever written about this book by anyone remotely important or not. It’s an ocean of thought and no matter where one dives in, no amount of exploration can traverse all the waves that crash and recede inside its pages.

Within my Kindle.

Isaac Cordal

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eupraxsophy:

Child laborers, taken during the early 20th century by American photographer Lewis Hine. Learn more about his work here.

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"Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

- Mark Twain (via fictionfiction)

(Source: lackadaisicallyserendipitous, via karenfelloutofbedagain)

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"Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future."

- Jonathan Safran Foer (via theorthodoxheretic)

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Love this film.

(Source: fassyy, via unopenedletterstotheworld23)

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"The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas."

- Terence McKenna (via lucifelle)

(Source: commondense, via teachingliteracy)

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danceabletragedy:

Rafflesia Arnoldii

Rafflesia arnoldii is the world’s largest flower having a diameter of about one meter and weighing up to ten kilograms. It is a rare flower and not easily located. It grows only once a year and blooms for around five days. According to researches in discovery news, this flower that looks and smells like rotting flesh is related to flimsy flowers like violets, poinsettias and passionflowers. Hence it also called as “meat flower” or “corpse flower”. The flower is pollinated by flies and carrion beetles attracted by its vile smell. It contains about 27 species and found in Indonesian rain forests of southeastern Asia and Philippines. Rafflesia is an official state flower of Indonesia, Surat Thani Province in Thailand and Sabah state in Malaysia.

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