March 2011
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“Curving back within myself, I create again and again.”
– Bhagavad Gita
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youmightfindyourself:
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
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“The skin, a single tissue with localized concentrations, displays sensitivity....”
– Michel Serres
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Miru Kim, Personal Statement
The Pig That Therefore I Am
I lift up my shirt with my left hand and carefully touch my lower abdomen with my right hand. My right ring finger delicately runs over a few raised bumps on the right side, directly over the appendix. I look down and count the bumps. Seven raised scars from shingles I had at the age of sixteen. It was a turbulent time. My skin had spoken out about the inner distress....
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“Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to...”
– Anna Kamienska Excerpts from “In That Great River: A Notebook” (FULL PIECE SOURCE)
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Music While Drowning
There were moments when the black river put a yoke on all my powers. I saw the small waters large and the gentle shores steep and high. Turning, I fought and heard the waters within me, the good and beautiful black waters— then I breathed golden strength again. The river flowed, rigid and strong.
Poem by Egon Schiele, originally in German Music While Drowning - Book of German Expressionist...
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“Have compassion for everyone you meet,
even if they don’t want it.
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– Miller Williams, via crashinglybeautiful
Diana’s way of thinking. Unfortunately I don’t completely agree, I am closed minded in that way. She sees the bad, and still hope for good. She’s easily hurt but she gets up again when she has been wronged and sees them as a whole, the bad...
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Edouard Léve – Suicide →
Book review by Jena Salon
Artist and writer Edouard Levé composed a series of photographs titled “Pornography” that derive their disturbing, yet intimate, quality from how little they expose. The people in the photos are in lurid, sexual positions, but their bodies are fully clothed in business attire: there isn’t a genital in sight. It is this clothing, this refusal to remove the barrier we are...
