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"It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read."

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:28:36 -0500

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”

- Lemony Snicket. (via kayleyhyde)

thisbrilliantsky: demons: A bit can be said for bibliophiles...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:21:30 -0500

demons:

A bit can be said for bibliophiles because not even the damage done by the Blitz could keep them out of the London Library.

Debris? Oh you mean this debris? Yes, it’s making my shoes a bit dusty. Yes, yes, I hear the sirens - but BOOKS.

kingcheddarxvii: This was a letter Mr. Mark Twain posted on his...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:48:33 -0500

kingcheddarxvii:

This was a letter Mr. Mark Twain posted on his front door after his house had been burglarized in 1908

I thought you’d like this, you seem to be a, erm, ‘Twainiac’, for lack of a better term.

"The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and..."

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:41:45 -0500

“The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.”

- Victor Hugo (via to-know-ive-got-an-i)

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same..."

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:24:11 -0500

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via bethbethbethbeth)

(via misfires, arcticfawkes)

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:43:01 -0500

(via misfires, arcticfawkes)

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of..."

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:07:29 -0500

“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (via justnotthatperfect)

Photo

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:41:43 -0500

Photo

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:47:03 -0500

go to neopets > change language to chinese > use chrome to translate > hilarity

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:21:24 -0500

vondell-swain:

bothbuttons:mt-padalecki:

GOOD LORD. A WHOLE JAR OF OLIVES

literally perfect

fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo: This isn’t a photo but I KNOW the...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:17:08 -0500

fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

This isn’t a photo but I KNOW the armadillos out there will appreciate it!

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.

After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité

"Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality..."

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:41:57 -0500

“Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?”

- C.S. Lewis (via notyourgramma)

fuckyeahhistorycrushes: Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) French...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:22:24 -0500

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)

French painter for realism and scenes of lower middle class and manual labor. what a babe.

minawakitten: theambitioushallway: spikerr: biscuitpotato: sa...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:42:48 -0500

minawakitten:

theambitioushallway:

spikerr:

biscuitpotato:

sailorswayze:

freecocaine:

farmboybob:demonsee:

Harrison Ford watches the Indiana Jones movies for the first time.

How freaking adorable is this.

OH MY GOD THE CUTEST THINGAAAAAAAA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M44yrGGuN4&feature=related

looool

he’s adorable here. i love his reactions.

God I love Harrison Ford.

wat

hes never seen the movie he acted in???

that sounds so strange but damn his reactions are wonderful

~~‘Ah. I’m dead’~~

thedailywhat: Kickass Cover of the Day: Sarah Blackwood and the...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:17:27 -0500

thedailywhat:

Kickass Cover of the Day: Sarah Blackwood and the four members of Walk Off the Earth split one guitar in their striking cover of Gotye and Kimbra’s Sting-ish single “Somebody That I Used to Know.”

[reddit.]

i love this song and this cover is totally awesome

lostsplendor: Infanta Winter Coat by www.qutieland.com

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:43:45 -0500

lostsplendor:

Infanta Winter Coat by www.qutieland.com

ludzies: sassy-holly: & then he walks out the door turning...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:07:52 -0500

ludzies:

sassy-holly:

& then he walks out the door turning into a musketeer

^^^

thedailywhat: Adorable Birthday Flipbook of the Day: Paul may...

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:35:24 -0500

thedailywhat:

Adorable Birthday Flipbook of the Day: Paul may not be the most talented illustrator around, but the flipbook-style love note he made Emma for her birthday gets the point across rather beautifully. (Though, in fairness, the Explosions In The Sky soundtrack likely contributed to that quite a bit).

[neatorama.]

"In our world, that’s the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your..."

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 02:11:00 -0500

“In our world, that’s the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way its been put together it is so wobbly and ephemeral, so fragile, cloaking despair and, when you’re alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.”

- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

gingerhaze: Full size For some reason instead of doing homework...

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:58:00 -0500

gingerhaze:

Full size

For some reason instead of doing homework I decided that what I really needed to do was draw a map of the Fellowship’s feelings towards each other. No regrets. I do what I want, Thor.