How to Drink Without Your Mouth

This is a pandemonium. Instructions are a way of life. Permanent obsessions: Peirce, Sherlock Holmes, Benjamin, Paradjanov, Sebald. "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted." [Burroughs]

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https://soundcloud.com/lendmeyourliver/story-of-marina-by-damiane

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https://soundcloud.com/lendmeyourliver/claudia

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My new sounds:

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When your committee doesn't reply to emails

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This week’s episode, This American Life-style, brings you pieces on a theme. Our theme is: wombs. Or uteruses. (And what is the difference between those two words?) Act one: Meghan Flaherty reads an essay about mothers, sisters, and a womb. Act two: Matthew Rossi tells a story about a uterus gone...

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Check out this awesome story by my wonderful friend Matt!

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Untitled by Redstone Hill

Sher-Dor Madrassah, The Registan, Samarkand, Uzbekistan

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When I was a babe in philosophy, my bottle was filled from the udders of Kant.

C.S. Peirce

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#BABUSHKATS

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бабушкошки!!

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Too much good

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Spring TA assignments

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very rage. such achilles. much sing. so goddess. ϝ. ϝ.

Homer, probably. (via classical-doge)

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three snuggly kings Psalter, Oxford ca. 1200-1220.

BL, Royal 1 D X, fol. 2v

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I really want them to be the main characters from Rustaveli's "Knight in the Panther's Skin"... they would totally do that. They're not because Oxford. But I'm gonna keep pretending anyway.

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The belief in vampires of plant origin occurs among Gs. [Gypsies] who belong to the Mosl. faith in KM [Kosovo-Metohija]. According to them there are only two plants which are regarded as likely to turn into vampires: pumpkins of every kind and water-melons. And the change takes place when they are ‘fighting one another.’ In Podrima and Prizrenski Podgor they consider this transformation occurs if these ground fruit have been kept for more than ten days: then the gathered pumpkins stir all by themselves and make a sound like ‘brrrl, brrrl, brrrl!’ and begin to shake themselves. It is also believed that sometimes a trace of blood can be seen on the pumpkin, and the Gs. then say it has become a vampire. These pumpkins and melons go round the houses, stables, and rooms at night, all by themselves, and do harm to people. But it is thought that they cannot do great damage to folk, so people are not very afraid of this kind of vampire. Among the Mosl. Gs. in the village of Pirani (also in Podrima) it is believed that if pumpkins are kept after Christmas they turn into vampires, while the Lešani Gs. think that this phenomenon occurs if a pumpkin used as a syphon, when ripe and dry, stays unopened for three years. Vampires of ground fruit origin are believed to have the same shape and appearance as the original plant. […] The Gs. in KM. destroy pumpkins and melons which have become vampires … by plunging them into a pot of boiling water, which is then poured away, the ground fruit being afterwards scrubbed by a broom and then thrown away, and the broom burned.

from T. P. Vukanović, The Vampire; published in four parts in the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society from 1957 to 1960. (via rumelia)

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now the story of a wealthy family who incurred the gods’ wrath, and the one son who had no choice but to complete the cycle of revenge. it’s orestes development

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Um, anyone want to get this for me for... you know... the holidays? I gladly accept belated gifts.

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The Blue Arch of a Mosque in Esfahan

Photo and caption by Tandis Khodadadian (Woodland Hills, CA); Photographed April 2013, Esfahan, Iran

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must renew Russian passport and go to Iran asap.

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Kvirikoba 2013 in the village of Kala, Svaneti, Georgia.