May 2013
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May 20th
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“You know that all I desire and demand of life is to feel an urge to work!” —- Gustav Mahler
May 19th
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May 17th
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May 9th
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Fashion still doesn't give a damn about…
…the deaths of garment workers To the Guardian article by Lucy Siegle to which the image above points, I add from what I’ve seen: Bargaining is tough when buyers from transnationals fly down to set hourly rates with manufacturers. Decisions to move away to lower-cost sellers are taken in an instant and aggressive sellers desperate to cover overhead do everything they can (but...
May 5th
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May 5th
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May 4th
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May 1st
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May 1st
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April 2013
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Apr 29th
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Why I like Churumuri
Because it gives a sense of the times in right-size shots of photo and text. Go there!
Apr 27th
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 19th
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Apr 9th
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“This is how you read a novel: you inhale the experience. So start breathing.”
– Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (via stackofbooks)
Apr 7th
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means... →
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state of god-like awareness one sings; in this realm the world exists as poem. —-Henry Miller in The Wisdom of the Heart
Apr 7th
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anthophilae: “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” —Harun Yahya
Apr 7th
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March 2013
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“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow...”
–  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mar 30th
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Mar 26th
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cliqmo: “Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” —Franz Kafka
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
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“Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel (via proseprunings)
Mar 23rd
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Mar 22nd
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“The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering,...”
– Susan Sontag (via proseprunings)
Mar 22nd
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Mar 21st
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Honouring the Devil
So we honour even the Devil with a capitalisation. There’s wisdom in that, I guess. I’m thinking.— Shashikiran Mullur (@shashikiran) March 20, 2013
Mar 21st
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“Character is seen most clearly in choice under pressure.”
–  Scarlett Thomas, Monkeys with Typewriters
Mar 21st
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Mar 21st
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Mar 20th
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Mar 19th
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“When you read, don’t let the poet write down to you; read up to him. Reach for...”
Mar 19th
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Mar 17th
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Mar 16th
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London: William Blake →
I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow.  And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls,  And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls But...
Mar 15th
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Mar 13th
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staying present on Tarka Rail →
Mar 11th
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Mar 11th
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see London a bit, perhaps… — Shashikiran Mullur →
Mar 11th
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Mar 10th
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February 2013
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Feb 24th
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 20th
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