Reader on the Road

Pascale. 21 years old Climber / Traveler / Harry Potter Fan / Artist / Cyclist / Reader / Hiker / Teaching Student / 15 countries traveled

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Amber Heard as Nicola Six in London Fields

[securelyinsecure]

My mood for 2019

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[public-rhetoric]

Not all heroes wear capes

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[elsinore-and-inverness]

Them: I have a 500 word paper that I-

English Major: 500 words? That’s not a paper. That’s an abstract. Where’s the rest of it? WHERE IS IT. 

Them: I got a text from-

English Major: A text? What devices does it use? How does it mean? Why does it mean? HOW DO TEXTS MEAN?

Them: You need to turn right.

English Major: Write. Write. Write like you’re running out of time. WRITE DAY AND NIGHT LIKE YOU’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. 

Them: I have to do a review of literature for this lab repor-

English Major: You don’t review the literature. You ENGAGE with it. EXAMINE it. RESPOND to it.

Them: I’m allergic to bee-

English Major: TO BE OR NOT TO BE THAT IS THE QUESTION WHETHER TIS NOBLER IN THE MIND TO SUFFER THE SLINGS AND ARROWS OF OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE OR TO TAKE ARMS AGAINST A

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Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by D.H. Lawrence, Harper Lee, Franz Kafka, George Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 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 April 8, 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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FUCK THIS!!! im a humanities/arts person!!! FUCK MATH!!! what the fuck is even calculus!!! what r u calculating!!!! fuck off!!!

[themagicfarawayttree]

 “ Bram Stoker’s Dracula, First Edition, 1897 Published in Westminster by the Archibald Constable and Company ”

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In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They were not necessarily the same sentences the professors pointed out, which would turn up for further explication on an exam. I noted them for their clarity, their rhythm, their beauty and their enchantment. For surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

Jhumpa Lahiri, from “My Life’s Sentences” (via ablogwithaview)

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Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Ray Bradbury, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 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 February 25, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[kcinpa]

Pride and Prejudice 1995 + The Onion headlines, part 1/5

Original by whatwouldelizabethbennetdo

Other Austen + The Onion headlines

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Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Ray Bradbury, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 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 February 25, 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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Here’s our brand new giveaway! 

[abundantgraceandivorylace]

gloomy mornings call for emily dickinson by the windowsill 🌧☕️

instagram: kate_ashbrook

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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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“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?” ~J.R.R Tolkien

[acti-veg]

“Plants are alive/feel pain too.”

This is a surprisingly common argument against veganism; despite the very obvious flaws in this logic. This is often not an attempted justification for eating animals so much as it is an attempted attack on vegans who believe that their lifestyle involves less cruelty than an omnivorous one. This is actually a logical fallacy known as tu quoche, which is to accuse your critic of being guilty of doing the same thing they accuse you of in cases where the two situations being compared are not identical. However, I will examine this argument in full nonetheless.

Firstly, it is clear that plants are living organisms which do respond to stimuli. However, as vegans we do not abstain from eating animals because they are alive or because they respond to stimuli, but because they are sentient. The claim that plants have sentience is based on little more than popular pseudoscience; which 36 prominent plant scientists have completely dismissed in a co-signed letter. We know that plants do not feel pain in the way that animals do, because they lack the basic requirements for sentience. Meanwhile, over 2,500 studies suggest and an overwhelming majority of the scientific community agree that at least some animals are sentient, including the animals we farm for food.

Even if we were extremely generous and accepted that plants are sentient, despite evidence to the contrary, that would still in no way justify choosing to eat animals instead of plants where a choice exists between the two. For this argument to make sense, we would have to be willing to accept that plants are even more sentient than animals are. We would then be in a situation where the challenge would be to consume as few plants as possible, however, unfortunately for those holding this position, the conclusion of that logic would be that we all need to go vegan as quickly as possible. This is because we feed considerably more plants to farmed animals than we ever eat ourselves and livestock take in far more calories in crop feed than they will ever give out in meat, meaning your average omnivorous diet requires significantly more plant “suffering” than a vegan diet does. That isn’t even accounting for the vast swathes of rainforest cut down to make room for animal feed and grazing land for cattle. 

Either plants are sentient or they are not; but either way a vegan diet is still the best course of action. A vegan lifestyle is not without harm or environmental destruction, which absolutely should be addressed and discussed. However, since we must consume food to survive, when that choice is between a food sourced from the bodies of clearly sentient beings or beings which are not sentient, which decision is the least harmful should be absolutely clear. 

(More resources at Acti-veg.com)

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