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Notes"As they grow intimate the space between them during the day grows larger. She likes the distance he leaves her, the space he assumes is their right. It gives each of them a private energy, a code of air between them when he passes below her window without a word."Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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Notes"Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into muscle, to remain sane in their company. You needed to grab their hair and clutch it like a drowner so they would pull you into their midst"Michael Ondaatje, from The English Patient
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Notes"I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon."Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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For women who are tied to the moon, love alone is not enough. We insist each day wrap it’s knuckles through our heart strings and pull. The lows....
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Today In History
‘Dr.Mae Carol Jemison became the first black woman astronaut on this date June 5, 1987.’
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Isn’t being stuck on the tarmac a drag? Not when you have the Philadelphia Orchestra on board with you. Read more at NPR’s The Two-Way.
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Bored? Killing time?
Make yourself useful! Help decode fragments from an ancient trash heap.
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Highest Resolution Ever ~ Maps of Nearest Galaxies
Light masked our view of some galaxies. Now it’s all clear, thanks to Penn State, NASA and...
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Interviewer: What inspired the use of colour transitions (in Punch-Drunk Love)? What drove you to include those in the film?
Paul...
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“You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.”— James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78 (via nps2013)
