Month: June 2018

fuckyeahthomaspynchon: “Because it’s hard to get over the wonder of finding that Earth is a living critter, after all these years of thinking about a big dumb rock to find a body and psyche, he feels like a child again, he knows that in theory he must not attach himself, but still he is in…

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sixpenceee: I survived a mass shooting at a movie theater. A horrifying real account of a survivor’s story of the 2012 Aurora shooting.  By reddit user Neon_Pikachu More stories here: sixpenceee.com/tagged/story This happened to me four years ago. It’s by far the most extreme and life threatening situation I’ve been in. The eyewitness account you are about…

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gkojax: 近現代中国書道bot@圧倒的康生力さんのツイート: 文化大革命。各地で「反革命分子」への処分が行われた。とある人物は処刑される前に眼を閉じて「この世は余りに暗すぎる」と呟いた。そのまま眼を開けることなく、ひざまづき、銃弾を受けた。 https://t.co/c9vGLxAeYX

HERETICS, PLAGUES, AND FORBIDDEN ART

HERETICS, PLAGUES, AND FORBIDDEN ART Cool blog With streets that twist and turn and spiral upward into cul-de-sacs, it’s becoming clear that we’ll only have the opportunity to see a fraction of Cuenca in the two months before we head back to the states. Each time we leave the apartment we try to walk a…

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Marriage, Love, and Sex in the Sinophone World

Marriage, Love, and Sex in the Sinophone World Still think this is a highly dubious term: “Sinophone World.” If you are talking about a Chinese-speaking world that sees itself as an interconnected, relatively homogeneous community, well sorry, that just doesn’t exist. I guess the political supposition is that if you talk about it enough you…

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