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Mariusz Lemiecha

Sometimes I take weeks to remember a single word in my own tongue:orange or courage or please. Sometimes I take hours to work up the courage to ask a question.

Sally Wen Mao, “Close Encounters of the Liminal Kind,” published in Kenyon Review (via bostonpoetryslam)

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Bryan Proteau - The Departure of Consciousness

nemfrog

“Knowledge of cloud types is useful to the meteorologist as they indicate conditions of air masses.” Clouds. Air Masses. World Geo-graphic Atlas, A Composite of Man’s Environment. Geography, Geology, Demography, Astronomy, Climatology, Economics. 1953. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.

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Thunder cloud. World Geo-graphic Atlas, A Composite of Man’s Environment. Geography, Geology, Demography, Astronomy, Climatology, Economics. 1953. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.

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currentsinbiology

Aliens are probably involved.

America’s pungent corpse flowers are all mysteriously blooming at once

Botanists across the US are trying to figure out why so many titan arums – better known as corpse flowers – are blooming simultaneously around the country this year.

This is super weird, because there have only been 157 recorded blooms ever between 1889 and 2008. But this year in the US alone, at least seven flowers have bloomed.

pandavalkyrie

2016 continues

jethroq

An omen

mymysterymeat

my exact aesthetic: dead ass want some donuts

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blueblackdream

Peter Mazel, Kate Bush, ca. 1978

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“I studied philosophy, history of religion, aesthetics. And ended up putting myself in chains. Of my own free will.” The Sacrifice (1986), Andrei Tarkovsky.