Lazy Thinker

Not so deep thoughts

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Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away twelve Bantam Classics paperbacks by Walt Whitman, Emily Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, George Eliot, Shakespeare, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on September 29, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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FINAL REMINDER: Today is the day! We’re choosing a random winner later today, so reblog now! And yes, you can reblog this up to five times. :)

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Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away twelve Bantam Classics paperbacks by Walt Whitman, Emily Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, George Eliot, Shakespeare, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on September 29, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away twelve Bantam Classics paperbacks by Walt Whitman, Emily Bronte, Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, George Eliot, Shakespeare, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on September 29, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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Trying to get back into the swing of things after a very intellectually lazy summer. Has anyone read this book, if so let me know what you thought. So far it is a very good book.

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Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by Homer, Walt Whitman, Carson McCullers, Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Shakespeare, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on August 19, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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We’re choosing a random winner tomorrow, so reblog now! And remember, you can reblog this up to five times. :)

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Giveaway Contest: We recently reached 50,000 followers, and as a way of thanking you, we’re giving away FIFTY (50!) vintage paperback classics by Albert Camus, John Steinbeck, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, Jane Austen, and so many others! Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on January 20, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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WASHINGTON—Saying it was a simple but effective measure to reduce potentially deadly incidents, a study published Monday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that 90 percent of bike accidents could be prevented by buying a car like a normal person. “Our data confirm that the vast majority of cyclist injuries can be avoided simply by driving an automobile instead of biking around like some weirdo,” said lead researcher Dr. Laura Gafferty, adding that while bicycle riding was perfectly acceptable for children under 12, it was not recommended for any actual grown-up who wasn’t competing in the Tour de France or similar event where it wasn’t completely ridiculous. “Regular people drive cars because it’s the normal and not the abnormal thing to do. If every cyclist purchased and operated a car like you’re supposed to as an adult, bike fatalities would drop an estimated 40 percent within six months alone.” Gafferty went on to say that people who biked for exercise should consider driving to a gym and using a stationary bike facing a wall of televisions like everyone else.

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If marriage isn’t the goal, idk why you’re in the relationship.

People need to understand this. This isn’t math class. You don’t do a whole bunch of problems for practice. (via cardigansandcocktails)

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Neil Gaiman & Douglas Adams

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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

Henry David Thoreau in Civil Disobedience. (via circlet-of-kallipolis)

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Steve Liskey pipes.

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MUST READ:

Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

After reading other existentialist authors, and seeing Kierkegaard’s influence on them, I’ve gone back to some of his more accessible works. I especially like that most of his philosophy is based on Christianity and biblical passages. The upshot is that you don’t need to know generations of philosophers that came before in order to understand what’s going on, as long as you’ve got some background in scripture. I guess the other side of that coin is that if you don’t, it seems like he’s talking about the same thing for hundreds of pages instead of myriad facets of that thing. Fear and Trembling, in the end, is about faith. Not just belief, but what Kierkegaard saw as the foundation of a religious life. The belief that comes despite all indications to the contrary. In opening up his lecture, he starts with several versions of the way the Abraham and Isaac story could have gone, and in each of them, he fails the test of faith. K is trying to show what a crazy hard thing real faith is to attain. It’s a difficult read. I have to take it in little pieces and occasionally throw in another book to keep myself sane. But if you’re struggling with the concept of belief and devotion to something greater than yourself (something I’ve never figured out), it definitely raises useful questions.

by guest reviewer Cap 

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[Cover Image by Jason Alejandro at Princeton University]

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