October 2011
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“‘For a while’ is a phrase whose length can’t be measured. At least by the person...”
– Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun, trans. Philip Gabriel (via proustitute)
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“Messages the dead send
take time to arrive.”
– Carol Muske-Dukes, from “Like This” (via proustitute)
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Black Death And Modern Plague Microbes Nearly The... →
historyofeurope:
Scientists have used DNA lurking inside the teeth of medieval Black Death victims to figure out the entire genetic code of the deadly bacterium that swept across Europe more than 600 years ago, killing an estimated half of the population.
The researchers didn’t find any genetic feature that could explain why the plague was so virulent, according to a report just...
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“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”
– Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 82 (via mythologyofblue)
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“How can I express the darkness?”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 30 June 1927 (via proustitute)
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“I like the rain before it falls. Of course there is no such thing, she said....”
– Jonathan Coe (via peterpanspseudonym)
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“‘Think as I think,’ said a man,
‘Or you are abominably wicked;
‘You are a...”
– Stephen Crane (via wwnorton)
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“…In reality I did not go to the monastery to become an ascetic, but to gather...”
– Nikos Kazantzakis, The Fratricides (via touba)
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“Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.”
– Sappho (via theancientworld)
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