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The Rabbit Sign
We were walking to the conference building, from work to work, and out of the blue we spotted a small brown rabbit, about the size of your hand hopping in-between the flowers close to the station. It was so random and disgustingly cute. We just stood there and took in the moment. Scurrying we go…
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New Mantra
theflyinglota: After finishing our assigned readings from the Subaltern Studies Collective this week, we were complaining about how a particular piece by Spivak was incomprehensible. Our professor then proceeded to treat us to an amusing anecdote where one of Spivak’s students had complained about much the same in her class: Spivak’s reponse? “Don’t fetishize…
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For The Dead by Adrienne Rich
tenfiretrucks: I dreamed I called you on the telephone to say: Be kinder to yourself but you were sick and would not answer The waste of my love goes on this way trying to save you from yourself I have always wondered about the left-over energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill…
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Republic of the Imagination: The Map
republicoftheimagination: By Elizabeth Bishop Land lies in water; it is shadowed green. Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges showing the line of long sea-weeded ledges where weeds hang to the simple blue from green. Or does the land lean down to lift the sea from under, drawing it unperturbed around itself? Along… Republic…
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Hand – a ghazal
Hand – a ghazal The sound of tinkling laughter, words tossed like salad, pointing hands, In the middle of that noise my mind drifted on a boat to familiar hands The body of David was moulded and caressed, Stone was converted to poetry by calloused hands She packed their lunches into their bags, Boarding the…
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Notes on Earth-1947
I will be presenting Earth at a screening in Utrecht. These are my notes. Why is this movie called Earth or 1947? 1947 is the year two nations Pakistan and India were born out of British India. The British East India Company had its presence in India from the early 18th century. The Company was…
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My favourite Blackadder moments 1-10
I found this old post I had done on Blackadder and because I love that show so-so-so much I thought I must share it with you guys all over again: 1. It minds not me that you dress like a mad parrot and talk like a plate of beans negotiating their way out of…
