Infinite musics

joshkaplan:

iananan:

crumpetsandpikelets:

thesefewpresidents:

shazvancorset:

wavvvesofmutilation:

“He rubbed a piece of alum on the back of the neck. He finished in silence.”

In Evil Hour - Gabriel García Márquez

Wow. That is just bleak.

“On some stations officers, if they are married, live out.”

The Last Enemy - Richard Hillary.

I don’t even know what to make of that but either way it doesn’t bode well. Unless I become an officer. That’d be cool.

“The Scots are very similar to the Irish in language, custom and character, and are a courageous people, proud when confronting their enemies, who would rather die than be in servitude and say that it is a disgrace to die in one’s bed, whereas it is a great honour to die killing one’s enemies.”

- Barthélemy l’Anglais, Proprietaire des Choses, quoted in Scotland and the Low Countries, 1124-1994.

Prolonged and belligerent. Sounds like how I do it (ladies).

“Lord Merlin, who must have heard, was quite unmoved by this.”
 - The Pursuit of Love
Nancy Mitford.
Well, obviously, Lord Merlin is not getting in the sack with me. Otherwise he would be moved. Ooh-err. 

“Biologists are racking their brains trying to think what useful task this apparently surplus DNA is doing.”

Richard Dawkins - The selfish Gene.

Wow, I wasn’t really going to do one of these, but thought I’d check, just to see.

That is bleak. If that isn’t a cutting indictment of what I’m doing with my life right now, I don’t know what is.

seriously, I cannot think of anythine more specific, or anything worse.

I win.

“Can’t be number one or number two? Redefine your category.”

I feel like this is way funnier than it should be.

Don’t usually do this, but after seeing what I got…

“didn’t need to, but came obediently anyway.”

(via joshkaplan)