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« If you have to ask yourself where you will find the time to read, it means the desire isn’t there. Because no one has the time to read. Children don’t, teenagers don’t, adults don’t. Life is a perpetual obstacle to reading.

“Reading, I’d love to, but what with my job, the kids, the housework, I don’t have the time.” “You have so much time to read—I envy you!”

How is it that Ms X, who works, runs errands, raises kids, drives her car, loves three men, goes to her dentist appointment, is moving next week—how is it that she finds the time to read […]?

Time spent reading is always time stolen. Like time spent writing, for that matter, or time spent loving. Stolen from what? Let’s say, from the duty of living. Which is probably why the subway—this stinking symbol of the duty of living—is the world’s largest reading room.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

If we were to consider love from the point of view of our schedule, who would bother? Who among us has time to fall in love? Yet have you ever seen someone in love not take the time to love?  I’ve never had the time to read. Yet nothing has ever stopped me from finishing a novel I loved. 

Reading doesn’t belong to the societal organisation of time. Like love, it is a way of being. The issue is not whether or not I have the time to read (no one will ever give me that time) but whether or not I will gift myself the happiness of being a reader. »

— Daniel Pennac, Better Than Life

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it's gonna be ok except for all of the things that won't be ok which is most of them

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it's gonna be ok except for all of the things that won't be ok which is most of them

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it's gonna be ok except for all of the things that won't be ok which is most of them

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A poem by Kai Cheng Thom, as it appears in Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry, that reads:

ON THE ORIGIN OF TRANS FEMMES

for Meredith Russo

we are the daughters of witches that they could and did burn we are the daughters of witches that they are still burning & you know in my dreams, a woman keeps whispering: keep going maybe in the next lifetime we’ll make it to the water

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Concept art for V’ger by Syd Mead. From Star Trek The Motion Picture Inside The Art & Visual Effects. Brilliant new book by Jeff Bond & Gene Kozicki

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would you consider yourself an intelligent and sensitive pervert?

i've been saving this in my inbox for months because i don't feel like i have the words to match this. it's a shameful breach of my humility to answer yes, yes i do consider myself an intelligent and sensitive pervert. i love how you worded that. this is like a therapist's screening question.

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it's gonna be ok except for all of the things that won't be ok which is most of them

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the idea of "lending" an ebook or digital audiobook, let alone of one being stolen, is a truly incredible piece of grotesque nonsense

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"Tumblr could be the new PDF" not ambitious enough. Tumblr could be the new Zotero. Tumblr could be the new Hypothesis

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they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"

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t-shirt that says ‘I LOVE BEING ALONE IN QUIET DARK PLACES.’ on the front and ‘I AM NOT A FUNGUS.’ on the back.

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I annotate because I know I am many people, and that I’ll keep iterating forever, even after I die, because new readers and interlocutors will continue contacting various versions of me and passing their own judgements. For as long as I’m known, I’ll keep multiplying. Annotations are a way of engaging myselves in conversation. Sometimes, annotations are my way of fighting with other me’s for the last word. It’s a relentless, fast-paced, exciting form of relentless self-critique that leaves me flushed and invigorated. I enjoy making it visible to others in the works I do publish, just like I like those YK computers that were translucent, and you could see “under the hood” and even (gasp) repair them yourself! Maybe this offering will allow readers to understand me better, or at least, think that they do. Maybe (hopefully) it will allow them to do the same with their own writing, whether by giving permission or just providing an example.

[sarah] Cavar, interviewed by Katharine Blair for Pressed into Ink.

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things that i couldnt do before an astrophysics degree and could only figure out after getting one: friendship bracelet making

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Kabooom Ring by Alan Revere

18k engraved yellow gold, rubies 2009

Designed for AJDC exhibition theme "Explosion" 2009

musings on the sun

christina perneta, noor hindi, vincent van gogh, jeanette winterson, zinaida vysota docenko, anne sexton, olga kos, khalil gibran