David Foster Wallace was like, Art must be sincere! We must use every tool in the linguistic toolbox to cut through sentiment and dishonest cliche and build fresh ways to reveal the power and reality of unironized emotion.
And Mister Rogers was like, Basically the same thing, but without any shame or pretense or fear of sincerity.
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(Source: marketwarriors)
“Though slender in size for a full-length work, it served as a standard and a fixed point, an axis around which I was able to organize the many coordinates that make up the world of the novel.”
Haruki Murakami on translating The Great Gatsby into Japanese.
Population distribution of the United States in units of Canadas.
This is basically the whole point of maps.
Map of Croatian Words for ‘Ladle’ (courtesy of reddit)
aka editors? just me?
So I guess there is some confusion about this, but:
One does not know whether one’s child is male or female or intersex until that child is born. If you get chromosomal testing (which is still quite rare), I suppose you can have a pretty good (although still not 100%) idea, and the ultrasound technicians will make a (sometimes very well informed) guess if you ask them to. But you don’t really know until the child is born.
So yeah, the reason I’m not talking about the sex is that the kid in question does not yet exist, and I feel weird about publicly assigning a sex to a person who is not even a person yet.
We are very excited to have another baby, though, so YAY regardless of whether the baby is male or female or neither.
somewhat relatedly:
http://www.autostraddle.com/claudia-is-intersex-lets-talk-about-it-149137/
digg:
COFFEE-LOVERS be warned. Whether you are a three-double-espressos-a-day addict or just indulge in the occasional cappuccino, enjoy it while you can: a coffee drought may be on its way. Changing climate threatens to reduce the flow of coffee that fills 1.6 billion cups a day to a trickle. It may not be long before that after-dinner espresso costs more than the wine and some caffeine addicts will be forced to go cold turkey.
The actual end of the world.
First honey, then bananas, then bacon…now coffee. There goes the last of the reasons to get out of bed.
(via utnereader)
