eddy brease

twenty thirsteen.

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Loner Chicken. #howwedo #memorialdayweekend #RenoOtherDeadlySins

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How to come down from #electrostatics... (at Not St. James)

[theatlantic]

The saddest paragraph you’ll read today about the government shutdown.

[eddybrease-blog]

Get f*cking angry about this, people!!

[scienceisbeauty]

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Alan Turing

(via scienceisbeauty)

#readEmAndWeep

[theartofhiding]

It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.

Everett Ruess (via theartofhiding)

works without the "intelligent", in my case...

[laughingsquid]

How to Tie an Eldredge Necktie Knot

[eddybrease-blog]

for #bespokeTieEvent research...

[thehungrydudes]

Never give up.

[manchannel]

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

Aristotle (via manchannel)

truth.

[cherrybam-blog]

[eddybrease-blog]

been there.

[eddybrease-blog]

a worthy aspiration: “to be one in heart with [anyone] you meet, whether they are clothed in velvet or in sheep-skins...”

From: William Henry Hudson. “The Purple Land.” iBooks.

[eddybrease-blog]

I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings who are only the objects of pity and that kind of love...will soon become objects of contempt.... I wish to show that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardless of the distinction of sex.

Mary Wollstonecraft, from her book *A Vindication of the Rights of Women* {I *may* have fallen in love just now. Too bad my dream women was a contemporary of Edmund Burke's. Le sigh...}

[eddybrease-blog]

Bit by bit these poor people have given up everything else; but to this they cling with all the power of their souls—they cannot give up the veselija! [a Lithuanian wedding feast] To do that would mean, not merely to be defeated, but to acknowledge defeat—and the difference between these two things is what keeps the world going.

Excerpt From: Sinclair, Upton. “The Jungle.” Bookbyte Digital. iBooks.

[eddybrease-blog]

There is that within us, he was being forced to concede, which is capricious and for which the language of explanation is inappropriate. We are made of shadow as well as light, of heat as well as dust. Naturalism, the philosophy of the visible, cannot capture us, for we exceed. We fear this in ourselves, our boundary-breaking, rule-disproving, shape-shifting, transgressive, trespassing shadow-self, the true ghost in our machine.

from page one hundred twenty-eight of Fury by Salman Rushdie {random house trade paperback edition}

[eddybrease-blog]

...the shepherd protects the sheep and the lambs not for their own good but the better to fleece and then to slay them.

Hitchens, Christopher. “Arguably.” Grand Central Publishing, 2011-09-01. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright. Context: a mordant observation on Christendom's "good shepherd" metaphor.

[eddybrease-blog]

Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury--sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal--drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of /furia/ comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, but also violence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the giving and receiving of blows from which we never recover.

from page thirty of Fury by Salman Rushdie {Random House trade paperback edition}

[pizzaandbooks-deactivated201207]

The more a man knows, the less he talks.

Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle In Time

style is not a fashion thing. 

http://styleknigge.tumblr.com

(via styleknigge)

by this logic, i am an idiot.

[eddybrease-blog]

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, *move*.

page one hundred thirty-four of kerouac's *on the road* {penguin paperback edition}