An Elephant in Paris

[leselephantsaparis]

(We've been so many things--a legend, a history lesson, a lie--why not a fairy tale?)

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#Here Babe Have My Jacket

[joy-of-her]

cooling off in the Texas heat

📷: Jean-Philipe Piter

[leselephantsaparis]

A day or two earlier, Eli had bought a dictionary and a phrasebook and figured out how to order tea in what he believed to be reasonably passable French, but the barista invariably replied in English no matter which language he tried to use. It seemed clear that this was a rejection of some kind, but he hadn't decided whether it was a rejection of the English language or a rejection of him personally, and either way it was exhausting and he preferred not to think about it.

from "Last Night in Montreal" by Emily St. John Mandel

[laetitiaportalchupinsworld]

[strawberryjayne]

Seaton Sluice Harbour

[honeydrip233]

🌎 Mount Everest’s “death zone” begins at 8,000 meters above sea level, where oxygen levels are so low that humans can only survive for hours without aid. Wind chills can drop to –50°C even in summer. ✨

[leselephantsaparis]

It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rugged country seem to have no desire to be severed fom the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress. The last thing Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum.

from "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

[laurens-german]

OFF CAMPUS 01.06, The Breakaway

[michaelabiggane-blog-blog-blog]

[escapismsworld]

📍Pantheon, Paris, France

[thirsty-and-distant]

Stratt doing the eridian goodbye after listening to Grace's last message... because she never got to say goodbye until now... don't talk to me

[axiolotl]

reading Patrick Radden Keefe books is like the epitome of going down different random rabbit holes on a late night research binge

he's talking about a 19 year old boy who was missing and he mentions one building that the boy walked by and says: we're learning about this building's history now btw. in the 1840s, the founder of this company, [full synopsis of building's company]. and that was the very building Zach walked by on that night.

then next chapter: anyway in Uganda in the 1970s there was a purge of Ugandan Indians. okay PRK. let's see how you tie this one together.

[iko66]

Menton , France

[princessnamora]

Grace Kelly as Frances Stevens in To Catch a Thief (1955)

[leselephantsaparis]

I was working on a plan to disappear completely

[gentlemensarts]