Book Of Longing

Stephen World history, anti-fascism, alternative music, classic films and literature✨

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Jurassic Park (1993)

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[trulyvincent]

‘True love will find you in the end’ billboard appears along I-35 honoring the late Daniel Johnston.

[a-pale-fire]

“‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.”

— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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[debbieharry1979]

paul simonon and the clash on the set of “rock the casbah,” 1982

[space-adventurers]

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Radiohead - House Of Cards - In Rainbows

[absurdlakefront]

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist… Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so. As Renan said: ‘Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.’ Historians are professionally obliged not to get it wrong.

Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780, 1992

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European beer consumption.

[mapsontheweb]

Gender segregation in public schools.

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[thewriterkb]

Christopher Hitchens on How to Combat World Poverty.

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George Orwell, Prophet for the 21st Century

Far from just the deliberate dystopias of 1984 and Animal Farm, Orwell shows us the good and the bad; the problems and solutions for our fra

A tribute to the great man

[threehoursfromlondon]

nothing can describe the amount of pure joy & ecstasy i feel whenever the first notes of astral weeks begin to play.

[bethbrousil]

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One of my all-time favorite albums. “Ballerina” comes in a close second, but this is probably my favorite song off of this one…

[the-centre-cannot-hold]

A New Plan for the Lords

Time to bring the House of Lords into the 21st Century. Traditionalist, undemocratic, lazy… regardless of your reasoning, you are more tha

Let’s get reformist

[gaelgarcia]

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) dir. Guillermo del Toro