For the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice, Slate takes a look at the book’s best covers over the years, including ones by Jessica Hische and Coralie Bickford Smith.
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(Source: just-stay-inspired, via arzitekt)
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I want to read some John Green.
Recommendations? Which book should I start with?
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(Source: lonefaith, via )
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The Emperor’s castle originates from a mythical and ancient tale hidden within a woodblock landscape scene created by Japanese Ukiyo-e printmaker, Ando Hiroshige. This tale charts the story of two star-crossed lovers, the weaving Princess and the Cowherd who have been separated by the Princess’s father, the Emperor. These characters have been replaced by architectonic metaphors creating an urban theatre within the grounds of the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo.
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"It’s all real. Think about it. Haven’t Luke Skywalker and Santa Claus affected your lives more than most real people in this room? I mean, whether Jesus is real or not, he - he’s had a bigger impact on the world than any of us have. And the same can be said for Bugs Bunny and - and Superman and Harry Potter. They’ve changed my life - changed the way I act on the earth. Doesn’t that make them kind of real? They might be imaginary but, but they’re more important than most of us here. And they’re all gonna be around here long after we’re dead. So, in a way, those things are more realer than any of us."
Kyle Broflovski (via palcota)
(via purplequeens)
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There are some days when I drop my plans and ambitions and recognise that what matters is that I get through safely. And that’s ok. If eating take-out and watching House and reading a novel means I can make it then that’s a good call. If I spend my time moving from one distraction to another and balancing up my feelings and giving myself space then that is good and responsible and smart.
(Art therapy was hard today.)
(via lightmyf1re)
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"Every city has a single word that defines it, that identifies most people who live there. If you could read people’s thoughts as they were passing you on the streets of any given place, you would discover that most of them are thinking the same thought. Whatever that majority thought might be - that is the word of the city. And if your personal word does not match the word of the city then you don’t really belong there."
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love
I’m trying to work out what the words are - for the town where I grew up (prosperous), the city I’m in now (I don’t know), for myself (trust, maybe?)
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today I have read:
half of On Looking (John Berger)
all of Plain Modern (Brian MacKay Lyons)
all of Mecanoo (Francine Houben)
two or three chapters of Mythologies (Roland Barthes)
and a relevant extract of Soie (Alessandro Baricco)
(this is to remind myself that I have been productive and done useful things even though it doesn’t feel as though I have)
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Obviously, it was a surprise to find that one was insane. But what surprised George most was how painful it was.
It had never occurred to him before. His uncle, those unwashed people who shouted at buses, Alex Bamford that Christmas… Crazy was the word he had always used. As in crazy paving, or crazy golf. Everything jumbled and out of order and rather amusing.
It seemed less amusing now. Indeed, when he thought about his uncle stuck in St Edward’s for ten years without a visit from his family, or that dishevelled man who tap-danced for small change in Church Street, he could feel the corners of his eyes pricking.
If he were given the choice he would rather someone had broken his leg. You did not have to explain what was wrong with a broken leg. Nor were you expected to mend it by force of will.
The terror came and went in waves.
"Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother
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