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  • December 3rd, 2012 9:20pm


    writebastard:

    Yessssss…

    The Caryatid porch of the Erechtheion in Athens at sunset. I think. The maidens are on the south porch, so we should be looking west here.

    By the way, fuck Lord Elgin*. This temple was built in the 5th century BCE with six maidens, and that thieving syphilitic puke stole one of them in 1801 to decorate his manse in Scotland. Then he tried to steal another one, broke it, and left the shattered pieces where they fell.

    And then! 200 years later, these aren’t even the real Caryatids. The originals were removed in 1979, replaced with exact replicas, and are now being restored in the New Acropolis Museum.

    *I am pleased his name now means this. 

  • December 3rd, 2012 9:15pm

    A lot of boys and girls think their lives will have meaning if they find a partner who wants nothing else in life but them. That’s not healthy. That’s falling in love with the idea of a person, not the actual person.

    — Joseph Gordon Levitt (via lighthome)

  • December 2nd, 2012 11:38am

    School is really important: Reading, writing, arithmetic. But what they tend to do is teach you reading, writing, arithmetic…then teach you reading, writing, arithmetic again. Then again, then again, just making it harder and harder just to keep you busy. And that’s where I think they messed up. There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education. No, REAL sex education class, not just pictures and illogical terms…There should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there’s not, their class is on…gym….Their class is like Algebra. we have yet to go a store and said, “Can I have X Y + 2 and give me my Y change back, thank you.” You know?…Like foreign languages. I think that they are important, but I don’t think it should be required. Actually, they should be teaching you English, and then teach you how to understand double talk, politician’s double talk. Not teaching you how to understand French and Spanish and GERMAN. When am I going to Germany? I can’t afford to pay my rent in America! How am I going to Germany?

    —Tupac, Age 17 On the Topic of Education, 1988.

  • December 1st, 2012 9:58pm

    Psychologists Discover How People Subconsciously Become Their Favorite Fictional Characters

    Psychologists have discovered that while reading a book or story, people are prone to subconsciously adopt their behavior, thoughts, beliefs and internal responses to that of fictional characters as if they were their own.

    Experts have dubbed this subconscious phenomenon ‘experience-taking,’ where people actually change their own behaviors and thoughts to match those of a fictional character that they can identify with.

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