academicssay:
Active voice: I will write
Passive voice: Writing will be done
Passive-aggressive voice: I love how you always say you’ll write but never do
me @ me

personal i feel attacked

01.12.19 /00:27/♥ 17992

The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t so so out of quote 'hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling 'Don’t!’ and 'Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.

~ David Foster Wallace, from Infinite Jest

david foster wallace infinite jest quote

12.20.18 /15:05/♥ 1

It’s a prejudice of mine, I admit it, but it’s difficult for me to fully trust anyone for whom the thought of taking one’s own life hasn’t alighted at least briefly, enticingly, on their own thoughts; it suggests to me they probably haven’t suffered enough to be fully human. Roy [Baumeister]’s remarkably clear plotting out of this singularly hellish state, an altered state of consciousness with its own cognitive biases and pig-headed whirls of emotion, made me feel, then and now, less alone. That’s a feeling of solidarity with the solitary, which I’d like to share with you as well.

~ Jesse Bering, from Suicidial: Why We Kill Ourselves

jesse bering suicidal: why we kill ourselves quote

12.20.18 /15:00/♥ 1

Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend (1960)

jean-luc godard film weekend

12.17.18 /18:11/♥ 3

Jean-Luc Godard’s Weekend (1967)

The traffic jam is the modern equivalent of the river that is sailed through in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

weekend jean-luc godard film

12.17.18 /18:10/♥ 1

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

georges franju eyes without a face film

12.17.18 /18:06

Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face (1960)

georges franju eyes without a face film i am in love with franju's work

12.17.18 /18:04/♥ 7

Lena Nyman from I Am Curious - Yellow (1967)

lena nyman i am curious - yellow film

12.17.18 /18:01

12.17.18 /17:55/♥ 822

jimi hendrix always my guitar hero

spaceshipoftheseus:

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spockglocksrocks:
sometimes there’s videos that make me happy to exist on this planet
i’d reblog this even if it was a still image
I know it’s a sesame street clip but seriously, who is the target audience for this?
Parents watching it with their kids, I guess?
kids are perfectly aware that shakespeare is a thing, and “to be or not to be” is one of the few things they know about shakespeare. my nephew used to giggle like a fiend when my mom would talk all elizabethan to him. “what sayest, child, hast thou no cake? o injustice, sharper than a pokey stick! whither have the fairies whisked thy cake?”
i’m pretty sure patrick was here for the kids. <3
sesame street has *always* had a lot of jokes like this for the parents - totally clean, just fun cultural references to make it more entertaining for people in double digits.

12.03.18 /13:50/♥ 99681