April 2012
the cinnamon peeler's wife: L’Inconnue de la Seine (the “unknown woman of the Seine” was an... →
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L’Inconnue de la Seine (the “unknown woman of the Seine” was an unidentified young woman whose death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists’ homes after 1900. According to an often-repeated story, the body of the young woman was pulled out of the Seine River at the Quai du…
“I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee, our noons, our nights, our bodies spilled together, sleeping, the tiny flowing currents, immediate and forever. Your leg, my leg, your arm, my arm, your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.”
—Charles Bukowski (via eastatlanta)
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?”
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Sandi Toksvig
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“if you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.”
—Jean-Paul Sartre (via amandaay)
