March 2011
26 posts
Last Post For A While?
I am thinking about giving up Tumblr and Facebook for the next couple of months until I am back in the states. This is to make my time more enjoyable in the few months I have left in Europe. That being said, I still wish to stay in contact with those close to me. If you would like to reach me at any moment, contact me through these means:
E-mail: ahmad5@illinois.edu apotandarobot@gmail.com
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“whenever you go out-of-doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head...”
– elbert hubbard. (via 13000units)
This Song's Lyrics Always Bring Me Up
All the times we have shared and all the memories I have, brought me back to square one. Now I’m running on empty. Only you could pick me up, without thinking twice, and you wrapped your arms around me. When we find truth inside ourselves, it’s hard not to run away. But we must capture and embrace. It’s how we truly live our lives. We will be everything we have been...
“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams and the stars never rise,...”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via nutmegg1)
Perhaps where Conor oberst got his band name?
when your upset and confused
vivaxhate24:
life takes on a movie like atmosphere
every song becomes a secret message to you
the world looks less inviting, just more cinematic
I’ve noticed that on todays train ride
“…we are all of us self-inaccessible and can, for example, touch parts of...”
– Backbone by David Foster Wallace
Fountain: DFW, unlike many of his po-mo peers, was... →
fountainnotmountain:
DFW, unlike many of his po-mo peers, was ultimately an earnest sentimentalist, albeit one with a massive, arcane vocabulary and highbrow pretensions:
Among nonmembers of the literary in-crowd, there tends to be no controversy about Wallace’s greatness as an essayist—everyone agrees that…
He is by far the greatest author to have ever lived, and died. I wish he...
Tennessee Can Suck My Balls →
Tennessee legislature tries to make it a crime to practice Sharia Law in that state. Anybody found to violate this law (i.e. practice the basic tenets of Islam) will be subject to 15 years in prison. This is starting to sound a lot like the Middle East. That’s right, Tennessee, Missouri, and Oklahoma, you are no more noble than the dictatorships of the Middle East.
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very...”
– Virginia Woolf (via fuckyeahpastiche)
I Have a Goal
To finish a novel that I’ve started by the end of summer. Just a rough draft, not the final version. I have been writing an outline, which I hope to have completed in the next few weeks. Then it’s just a matter of hammering out the pages, filling in spaces, destroying paragraphs, reviving dead ones, and then printing out the pages to be read and edited by anybody who wants to. Then I...
“But we men, we have been probing and piercing into the past and the future. We...”
– H.G. Wells, The Croquet Player
I love this quote. It goes hand in hand with the overwhelming volume of information, necessary and unnecessary. It applies more so today than it did back when this was written. It will become even more powerful in the future.
“You must write every single day of your life. You must lurk in libraries to...”
– Ray Bradbury (via llibre, quote-book) (via teachingliteracy) 