July 2010
“What is the rationale for all this pillaging? Souvenirs. These people needed...”
– The blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood.
“Progress toward perfection has genuine skeptics, who insist on sticking with...”
– Consumed - Digital Tools for Making Brilliant Mistakes - NYTimes.com
Gaslighting →
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Gaslighting is a form of intimidation or psychological abuse in which false information is presented to the victim, making them doubt their own memory and perception.
The classic example of gaslighting is to change things in a person’s environment without their knowledge, and to explain that they “must be imagining things” when they challenge these changes. Similarly, the...
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin.
Paracosm →
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A paracosm is a detailed imaginary world involving humans and/or animals, or perhaps even fantasy or alien creations. Often having its own geography, history, and language, it is an experience that is developed during childhood and continues over a long period of time: months or even years.
♫Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues♫ →
“In the week before she died my mother said a strange thing, though I...”
– The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
“Necesito estar cerca de lo que estoy mirando. Casi todas mis fotos van con 35...”
– Adriana Lestido · ELPAÍS.com
“(we are, i am defined) by regret, nostalgia for the cinema which no longer...”
– Jean-Luc Godard (via reigen) (via bloemetjesbehang)
“Still in my nightgown , damp from some fright I’d pushed aside like...”
– The blind assassin, Margaret Atwood.
♫ The Bobby Fuller Four - I fought the law ♫ →
