Lots of the world seems to be a repeat. Emma Donoghue. Room. 292. Room is a fascinating book about a 5-year old boy who is born to his Ma in captivity. His whole world is the Room his mother and him are being held in until one day they get out and he has to …
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It is quite well understood that a clinically depressed person will show little, if any, interest in constructive activity concerning future events or outcomes. In this respect, Simon has only flirted with depression in its definitive or clinical form. But if that is all that depression required, then I could say without much hesitation that …
I’m not lazy. I’m useless. There’s a big difference. from the Dilbert strip for today.
There’s a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else’s work in the morning; it is as if stillness experiences pain in being broken. The first minute of the workday reminds you of all the other minutes that a day consists of, and it’s never a good thing to think of minutes as individuals. …
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations. (via L. on facebook)
And that is the real human calculus here: the companies are being forced to pick sides between Mr. Sheen and Mr. Lorre. In a town that lives for hits and can’t seem to find them, Mr. Lorre has helped create not only “Two and a Half Men,” but “Grace Under Fire,” “Cybill,” “Dharma & Greg,” …
“Out of clutter, find simplicity, from discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." -Albert Einstein
If American workers are being denied their right to organize when I’m in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States. Presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2007. Well, he’s POTUS now and there’s a massive …
quote-book: Photographed by: http://theclosetbandit.tumblr.com/ “To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful…” – Gaston Bachelard There is some truth in that. I’m not reading a lot of beautiful things for my self at the moment, and I miss it.
now it’s computers and more computers and soon everybody will have one, 3-year-olds will have computers and everybody will know everything about everybody else long before they meet them and so they won’t want to meet them. nobody will ever want to meet anybody else ever again and everybody will be a recluse like I …
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