May 2012
19 posts
from Slaughterhouse-Five
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains,...
My Weekend In America’s So-Called ‘Rape Capital’ →
Why are policemen and coeds alike so fixated on weeding out fake rape accusations instead of weeding out rapists? Is it possible that the federal probe will help dispel the myth of the girl who cried rape? Cynthia Wolken, the City Councilor who first initiated a hearing when the stories first broke, is hopeful that it will. “The response from our largely male leadership has been somewhat...
“You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I...”
– RILKE ON LOVE AND OTHER DIFFICULTIES
April 2012
38 posts
“Grad school prepared me for prison, I just read all day.”
– angela davis
namur asked: After staring at it for a little longer, I think it's a donut? Or an alien?
