#bigger world

[nobeerreviews]

Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world bigger.

-- Julian Smith

(Howrah, India)

[oneshipress]

James Quillen on Perseverance and Life Experiences

Comics were 12 cents when James Quillen’s grandmother took him to the corner drugstore for lunch. She bought him a comic book to bring home, and she used it to teach him read. By the time high school arrived, he was writing his own comic stories. He went on to college and then the Navy, all while amassing an enormous collection of comics. But it was Scott Snyder who pushed him into writing once…

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yikes, Happy Diving has to be one of the best finds for me this year... can’t get enough of them

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How Big Is Your World?

How Big Is Your World?

How Big Is Your World? I was just reading through an article and I was reading about something I wasn’t familiar with that referenced a famous individual and his familiarity with the subject of the article.  I know from readings of the famous individual that his interest are just so broad, it amazes me! Then the idea crossed my mind that this individuals world is very big.  Not necessarily in…

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[youdesperatecloud]

happy diving - bigger world

[unwrapping]

"To me, one of the most exciting things about the web is there is everybody else. There is everybody who wasn’t —  forgive this horrible analogy —  but everybody who wasn’t the star athlete, everybody who wasn’t like a social butterfly — who had a hobby that maybe none of their friends appreciated. Nobody else at their high school appreciated. There were plenty of geeks, plenty of people who really were open people but didn’t have anyone to open up to. One of the funnest things about [the web] is you realize that there is a much bigger world out there — and lots of little pockets and places to connect with people that are more like you." — Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp (david) in 2010.

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Half way through

Happy Aug.1, 2011 to everyone!!!

I can’t believe it until this moment that I am really in America. This place is just full of amazing stuffs that I seem to not get at all. I mean I am a mere young individual who look at life to be so big yet small enough for me to fit in.

However, when I get to think of it a little bit more I see that things like this happen to people who ought to learn something and share something. I want to be deep with things and critical to certain matters. That could be a reason why I was given this rare chance to be in a place full of very diverse species of Homo sapiens, to better see the bigger picture.

Well, I am still halfway this journey to an escapade that is just a dream, a long one. There are still unturned stones, undiscovered depths and unimaginable objects to see, be it natural or man-made. I just go with the flow and let the day pass me by. Nevertheless, I have to dig deep in my system if I am really happy with this because I am supposed to be glad or because I am savouring the moment of being here. Whichever is the choice the questions about it will remain unanswered.

Seeing the life here makes me thought of home, of how different people here are and how amazing places here are (that includes the weather). I can now see why Pinoys say that this is the place for them to start a new life with a bright future. San Francisco has just so much to offer its people and migrants that were attracted to come.

Being here is more than an opportunity for me. This is an eye-opener to me, seeing deeply in the soul of reality. This is America. There is more to see and learn. I hope the three weeks of stay here is enough for me to learn a lot from these rich culture of different heritages.

Truly the San Franciscan culture have evolved and included other races in it. Gone was the racism as far as this part of USA is concern.  They have opened to the rest of the world the best of what it can give, greener pasture.

[fandomisreality]

Nothing can be clearer than this—the novels are themselves imitations of life and contain imitations of human beings, especially of human beings in society, conversing. No symbols, metaphors, were patterns, or levels of abstraction are to be found in them nor do the figures in them "exist only within the context of the work." Certainly there are revelations, correspondences, significances. But nothing is ever there for mere form's sake or to suggest or stand for something else—which is why the novels so repel literary criticism. The evidence for the latter claim, that the novels contain near-animate humans, is in the after-life her creatures were allowed to lead. Her family knew things about her people which were not in the books, and this shows that their lives extended beyond their published stories. They knew that the "considerable sum" given by the horrible Mrs. Norris to William Price was all of one pound, that Kitty Bennet married a clergyman near Pembedy, and that the inconvenient Mr. Woodhouse died two years after Emma's marriage. In a letter to her sister, Jane Austen pretends that she saw a portrait of Mrs. Bingley, the Former Jane Bennet, at a London exhibition of Sir Joshua Reynolds' paintings, and that Mr. Darcy would not let his wife Elizabeth's likeness be exposed to the public eye.

The Perfections of Jane Austen by Eva Bran (x)