ashkd

Verbal poetry and visual psychedelia.

[scientificphilosopher]

Bertrand Russell Lists His 20 Favorite Words in 1958 (and What Are Some of Yours?)

Behold a list of philosopher Bertrand Russell’s 20 favorite words, offered in response to a reader’s question in 1958.

Every writer has favorite words. Some of those words are ordinary, some of them not so much. David Foster Wallace’s lists of favorite words consist of obscurities and archaisms unlikely to ever feature in the average conversation. “James Joyce thought cuspidor the most beautiful word in the English language,” writes the blog Futility Closet, ”Arnold Bennet chose pavement. J.R.R. Tolkien felt the phrase cellar door had an especially beautiful sound.”

[…] Below is philosopher Bertrand Russell’s 20 favorite words, offered in response to a reader’s question in 1958. Though Russell himself had a fascinating theory about how we make words mean things, he supposedly made this list without regard for these words’ meanings.

wind

heath

golden

begrime

pilgrim

quagmire

diapason

alabaster

chrysoprase

astrolabe

apocalyptic

ineluctable

terraqueous

inspissated

incarnadine

sublunary

chorasmean

alembic

fulminate

ecstasy

[akshid]

Videotape (Radiohead Cover)

Cover of Videotape From In Rainbows

Quite happy with the eery drums on this cover.

[akshid]

https://soundcloud.com/akshd/videotape-radiohead-cover

[pauljacksonlives]

[turecepcja]

pauljacksonlives

[trippittyy]

[psych-facts]

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.

— Vincent Van Gogh (via psych-facts)

[akshid]

https://soundcloud.com/akshd/only-ones-who-know-arctic-monkeys-cover

[lafilleblanc]

Harold Ancart @ Clearing

Challenger Deep, 2012 

[themeltingpot]

[syntheticphilosophy]

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Bertrand Russell (via syntheticphilosophy)

[thecalminside]

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Kahlil Gibran (via thecalminside)

[theheartbreakseries-blog]

[nannimoretticonlemestruazioni-d]

Join the lasagne side.

[ginngetsu]

手のひらと前足

[rexisky]

[utrippy]

I am energy. I am galactic. I am psychedelic. ॐ

[sambargold]

Tame Impala - Innerspeaker