November 2011
October 2011
the ragbag: some peculiar halloween customs →
ragbag:
On Halloween hang an apple by the door just the height of the chin. Rub the chin with saliva, stand about six inches from the apple, and hit the chin against the apple. If it sticks to the chin, you will be married, and your true love will stick to you.
On Halloween a girl is to go through a graveyard, steal a cabbage and place it above the house-door. The one on whom the cabbage...
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“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow...”
– W.B. Yeats
(darqueness)
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“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of...”
– G.K. Chesterton (via misswallflower)
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“Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye and sailed back over a year...”
– Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (via the-final-sentence)
“It must be nice to be rich and sit around all day catching subtleties.”
– Best line in The Marriage Plot so far. (via somethingchanged)
“I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (via hospitalbombers) 