February 2012
12 posts
guerrilla mama medicine: Ginsberg →
isabelthespy: eating-poetry: No blame. Anyone who wrote Howl and Kaddish earned the right to make any possible mistake for the rest of his life. I just wish I hadn’t made this mistake with him. It was during the Vietnam war and he was giving a great protest reading in Washington Square…
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“Why imagine that specific genes for aggression, dominance, or spite have any...”
– Stephen Jay Gould, “Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism”, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (via darlingtonia-californica)
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Lily Herman: Road Test →
lherman: All the way across the country Jesse was obsessed with knowing where we were. The name of the river we slept beside in Utah, tiny towns that had been emptied out in one final garage sale after the steel-mill shut down, dirt roads that fell into each other like tributaries and opened up idly into…
Feb 14th
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NotAskingForPermission: jenniferbundock: “The... →
jenniferbundock: “The essence of true love is mutual recognition—two individuals seeing each other as they really are. We all know that the usual approach is to meet someone we like and put our best self forward, or even at times a false self, one we believe will be more appealing to the… click through— bell hooks always has a bit more to say then you think at first.
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“Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely...”
– Zora Neale Hurston
Feb 4th
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