February 2012
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Ready-made rebellion: the empty tropes of... →
“But to claim significance for a vacuum is easy; in the rueful words of Flannery O’Connor, something has to be in a story in the first place before it can then be artfully left out. When it comes to the moral dimension of a work of narrative art—human beings choosing, whether nobly or foolishly, from a range of potential actions and in the face of some sort of internal or external...
“Youth isn’t just about running pell-mell at the sun yelling, ‘Damn it all to...”
– Hayao Miyazaki (via rueppell)
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florence and the machine ; shake it out (the...
How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy... →
maura:
A bit worried that this is going to be one in a series.
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
– Fitzgerald (via decemberwrists)
