July 2011
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watercolour nights: Soldiering →
watercolournights:
A gun on either side of me, a pond with blood and foam, shit and corpses in it; among the lily’s pads, empty boxes of bullets, bandages and processed food; a quiet made up of too much blantant sound, grass and weeds smashed by up-to-the-minute shards of metal riven to find the fox’s hole I dug to…
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At least 84 people killed in Utøya massacre →
aurevoirohshanna:
Reddit User Sunberg put together a very in-depth collection of information surrounding the shooting in Oslo that I’ve featured below. WARNING: Some of the links below lead to images and video that are very graphic in nature.
Some bulletpoints of what happened:
This happened at the Norwegian Labour party’s summercamp for teenagers.
ca 600-700 people were at the island...
Somehow managed to gain three pounds since I got up this morning.
Trying not to give a fuck, but not really succeeding. I just lost fifteen pounds and I don’t want to gain it back, but I also don’t want to count calories for the rest of my life.
It brightened; the sky turned to a crimson which I strove, gluing my eyes to the...
– Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, trans. C. K. Moncrieff and Robert Kilmartin (part of Proust’s birthday)
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He didn’t think the work was for everybody. When he first exhibited his...
– Patti Smith on Robert Mapplethorpe, from Just Kids
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And I’ve just discovered that if you type your bit above the text of the post you’re reblogging, people can tell that it’s something different, not part of the original post.
Bit embarrassed right now.