December 2011
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Dec 28th
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Noteworthy Words by DFW
The late-David Foster Wallace was incredibly fond of collecting words he found to be noteworthy, either by scribbling on the pages of the books he was currently reading, circling specific words in his personal dictionary, or compiling standalone vocabulary lists. The latter method is illustrated below, in the form of just two pages from the hundreds of word lists he amassed over the years....
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the heart's electromagnetic field
Recently, Neurophysicists have been astonished to discover that the heart is more an organ of intelligence, than (merely) the bodies’ main pumping station. More than half of the Heart is actually composed of neurons of the very same nature as those that make up the cerebral system. Joseph Chilton-Pearce, author of The Biology of Transcendence, calls it “the major biological...
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“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together...”
– Henry Ford (via objectsinlove)
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The Sexual / Creative
—- Penthouse: Do you jerk off? Patti: Only when I’m working. It’s such an intense procedure for me. It’s like a ritual ‘cause I take it real seriously. I try to eat some hashish and then I read a little. It doesn’t have to be dirty, just so long as it’s well written. I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don’t like to...
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