February 2012
26 posts
“i don’t consider myself a pessimist. i think of a pessimist as someone who...”
– leonard cohen
“the truth will set you free. but not until it is finished with you”
– david foster wallace
http://socialsurrealism.blogspot.com/2012/02/girls-... →
apomakrysmenophobia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. fear that your connections with people are ultimately shallow, that although your relationships feel congenial at the time, an audit of your life would produce an emotional safety deposit box of low-interest holdings and uninvested windfall profits, which will indicate you were never really at risk of joy, sacrifice or loss.
this week at work i spilt my lunch down myself for three consecutive days in a row, so now all of my clothes smell like grilled cheese and peppermint tea. tonight i am getting drunk and i just found a mouldy kiwi that had exploded at the bottom of my bag and made the mistake of smelling it and now i’m a ghost. i just woke up and i cancelled my driving lesson so that i can stay in bed and...
January 2012
19 posts
~ AFL ~: Check your white privilege →
sourcedumal:
anedumacation:
super-eklectic1:
i need you to read this:
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/files/mcintosh.html
and these:
http://super-eklectic1.tumblr.com/post/11807662655/anedumacation-weexist-weresist-as
…
“Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain,” Wallace wrote at one point, “because something that’s dull or opaque fails to provide enough stimulation to distract people from some other, deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from.”
December 2011
7 posts
