January 2011
90 posts
Essay on Snobbery →
Very interesting, and often moving, essay. I don’t agree with all of it, but I especially love the harshest parts, the moments when he admits the wonderful self-preservation origins of his snobbery, his moments of snobbery failure (when social pressure forced him to back down), and his claim that snobbishness is one of the main things that helps many people feel connected. I love personal...
Iggy Pop returns a fan letter →
This letter is one of the more beautiful pieces of writing I’ve ever come across.
bohemea:
jennydreadful:herecomethewaves:jennydreadful:karentruscott
Watchpgwp:
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“I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be and I finally became that person. Or...”
– - Archie Leach, Bristol-born son of a Jewish suit presser, on how he became Cary Grant
Ben Franklin's Two Hundred Ways to Say "Drunk" →
“We had fed the heart on fantasy, the heart’s grown brutal from the fare.”
– William Butler Yeats
Harry Nilsson sings “Remember”
The...
“The base man who desired only for wealth would always fail. The higher adepts,...”
– James L. Acord
“The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly...”
– Oscar Wilde
