September 2009
55 posts
A Divine Falling of Leaves, Pablo Neruda
Moon: royal crown of an enormous head, dropping leaves into yellow shadows as you go. Red crown of a Jesus who broods tragically, softly over emeralds!
Moon: sweetly lost heart in heaven, why do you row toward the west in that cup filled with blue wine, whose hull is injured and hurt and sad?
Moon: it is no use flying away, so you go up in a flame of scattered opals: maybe you are in my...
“Verbal and nonverbal manifestations of integrating may take many forms:
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– —Interpersonal Communications and Human Interactions Mark L. Knapp & Anita L. Vangelisti
(Another stellar quote from my textbook)
We describe our relationships in many ways. Sometimes we rely on conventional intimacy terms like stranger, acquaintance, buddy, close friend, lover; sometimes role designations such as neighbor, boss, hitchhiker, teacher, or pickup are used.
-Interpersonal Communication and Human Relationships Mark L. Knapp & Anita L. Vangelisti
(Studying my Comm 307 class, and came across this....
Dan Brown's 20 Worst Sentences →
4, 3, and 2. The Da Vinci Code, opening sentence: Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum’s Grand Gallery.
Angels and Demons, opening sentence: Physicist Leonardo Vetra smelled burning flesh, and he knew it was his own.
Deception Point, opening sentences: Death, in this forsaken place, could come in countless forms. Geologist Charles Brophy had...
Vanity Flare, Wendy Videlock
Don’t get me wrong: I know that knowledge is power, that mystery’s water, that hunger makes a gargantuan lover, and yes, I’ve drunk of the river Lethe, from the breath of the Celts, from the echo of the bugling elk,
and yet,
alas, here I be, small and twee, all liquored up on song and love, hard as rails and light as air, expecting the heavens to throw down a flare, ...
“A lot of verbage gets thrown around about the Bible (its perfection, its...”
– Claims about the Bible Work Best if You Don’t Actually Read It (via azspot)
“Picture an entire city, a modern, wealthy place, in the richest country in the...”
– Cory Doctorow | Philadelphia Free Library System is shutting down | Boing Boing (via ericmortensen)
“If you were to commit suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, would you...”
– Generation A Douglas Coupland
As many as 300 women have been raped in an... →
The eight men – all Mennonite, seven from Manitoba (a town in Bolivia) and one from a nearby community – have been charged with child abuse and rape. Their alleged victims range from five-year-old girls to women as old as 65.
The Mennonites are a Protestant group that fled religious persecution in 19th-century Europe to create isolated communities in America and elsewhere. Estimates suggest there...
