“I came to the conclusion that ‘God’ is just the word ‘good’ with the ‘o’ taken out, and ‘Devil’ is the world ‘evil’ with a ‘D’ added. Really, all that people have done throughout history is to personify the two forces of Good and Evil.”
— Paul McCartney (via suzywire)
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11:16 pm • 26 January 2012 • 980 notes
“When Dostoevsky met Dickens in 1862 — a meeting that is hard to imagine — Dickens explained that there were two people inside him, ‘one who feels as he ought to feel and one who feels the opposite.’ […] Out of these two people he constructed his universe of characters, good and evil. Dostoevsky’s comment is laconic and ambiguous. ‘Only two people?’ he asked.”
— Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Whirling Sound of Planet Dickens” (via fwriction)
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11:02 pm • 26 January 2012 • 972 notes
nocternity: Handwritten last stanza of The Raven, a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
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11:01 pm • 26 January 2012 • 1,680 notes
teachingliteracy:askios:From the “Reconstructed Reliquaries” series by Stephani Lempert. Artist’s statement: “My continued fascination with methods of communication, and more narrowly with language, lead to an exploration in the intertwined nature of cherished mementos and the childhood reminiscences that make them precious. Each piece consolidates complex and multifaceted family narratives held in the memory of the real life storytellers and connects them to a single inanimate object. Each object weaves stories, literally and figuratively reconstructing the memories in such a way as to create a repository. These touchstones are forged from the very words they emote. My first sculpture exhibition, Reconstructed Reliquaries, reveals for the viewer beautifully delicate, true size objects created from handwritten text.”
10:55 pm • 26 January 2012 • 1,405 notes