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Albany State University 2014 Poetry Festival Nikki Giovanni - "Ego Tripping"

“I am so hip even my errors are correct”

“I cannot be comprehended except by my permission”

Obituary written by an AI

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences.In a hilarious talk capping off a day of new ideas at TEDxNewYork, p...

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dk-thrive

The past was a ghost, insubstantial, unaffecting. Only the future had weight.

Tara Westover, “Educated: A Memoir” (Random House, February 20, 2018)

fragmentarie

Some people make us feel more human and some people make us feel less human and that is a fact as much as gravity is a fact and maybe there are ways to prove it, but the proof of it matters less that the existence of it—how a stranger can show up and look at you and make you make more sense to yourself and the world, even if that sense is extremely fragile and only comes around occasionally and is prone to wander or fade—what matters is that sometimes sense is made between two people and I don’t know if it’s random or there is any kind of order to it, what combinations of people work the best and why and how do we find these people and how do we keep these people around, and I don’t know if it’s chaos or not chaos but it feels like chaos to me so I suppose it is.

Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing (via fragmentarie)

“How the Witchcraft of Clarice Lispector Changed My Life” by Scott Esposito @lithub

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grungebook

The New York Times Magazine’s Letter of Recommendation: Sleep, ‘Dopesmoker’ The origin story of ‘‘Dopesmoker’’ sounds like a light-bulb joke co-written by Nancy Reagan and Sisyphus: Three California stoners decide to write a song about how much they love marijuana, but they’re so high that it takes them four years. When they finally deliver the song to their record label, the label refuses to release it. And so the band breaks up without the world hearing their wonderful heavy-metal jam about weed. Don’t do drugs. The end….