December 2010
Mamihlapinatapai
fluctuat:
Mamihlapinatapai is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes “a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.”
November 2010
“West’s previous failed proposals include requiring the high school band to...”
– Lovecraftian School Board Member Wants Madness Added To Curriculum | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source (via chryselephantine)
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak
I’m so glad to see this on my dashboard again that I’m giving it a second reblog.
(via unicorn-guts)
“…This web of time—the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate,...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986) Garden of Forking Paths, Ficciones. From the Tao of Photography. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“No - my sweet Fanny - I am wrong. I do not want you to be unhappy - and yet I...”
– John Keats (in one of his two letters in May of 1820 to Fanny Brawne) (via lostinlabyrinths) (via fuckyeahjohnkeats) (via 19thcentury)
HP Books according to Draco Malfoy
ronstoppableismypatronus:
cosmicbowties:
angrywithrage:
Draco Malfoy and the Rejected Handshake
Draco Malfoy and the Better-than-Potter’s Broomstick
Draco Malfoy and Hagrid’s Bloody Chicken
Draco Malfoy and the Year His Father Would Hear About
Draco Malfoy and the Inquisitorial Squad
Draco Malfoy and the Vanishing Cabinet
Draco Malfoy and the Year He Realized He Had Been a Douchebag
Sapiosexual
gentlemanpervert:
That is very, very interesting. I like that.
Sapiosexual
(n): a person who is sexually attracted to intelligence in others.
Sapiosexual
(adj): of, or relating to, finding intellectual stimulation sexually arousing.
(via ellib)
“I’ll tell you something,” he said, as if he had said nothing that day. “You’re...”
– American Gods by Neil Gaiman (via spectralradiance)
“We covet what we see everyday.”
– Hannibal Lector (Silence of the Lambs)
