Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto
Reader Submission: Title and Redesign by Neil Huber.
"‘It’s a common enough word, but it might mean something different to you than it does to me. Language is a bastard. So let’s invent a new word. “Libb” will do. I libbed you. That’s all there is to it. I was in libb with you. My libb for you informed my every waking and sleeping hour for…for God know how many years. Nothing has ever been as powerful as that libb. It was the guiding force of my life, it haunted me then and haunts me still.’
‘You were in love with me?’
‘Well now, that’s your word. Libb has a great deal in common with love, I admit. But love is supposed to be creative, not destructive, and as you have found out, my libb turned out to be very harmful indeed.’"
The Liar (via fuckyeahstephenfry)
(Source: happinessisdiscolento, via fuckyeahstephenfry)
(Source: inckognito, via fuckyeahstephenfry)
Also this.
I found this while looking up (human) skeleton diagrams for a project.
"I lay on my bed and looked up. I had a pink floodlight in lieu of a regular ceiling fixture and I had affixed a paper beehive-shaped shade to it; probably a fire hazard. What did I care? I owned nothing of value. Everything would turn out fine. Or else- hell- it would burn. I only wanted my body to bloom and bleed and be loved. I was raw with want, but in part it was a simple want, one made for easy satisfaction, quick drama, deep life: I wanted to go places and do things with her. So what if the house burned down."
Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
thanksgiving, by Tao Lin
i feel most comfortable around middle-class japanese people
i know they are all thinking the same things as me
WHY ARE THE LINES SO LONG?
WHY AM I IN NEW JERSEY?
though their faces appear calm
their thoughts are exactly like i just put them
also
about how we cannot communicate in our first languages:
we don’t care
we don’t want to communicate at all
we just want to get our food
and eat it
and go home
and go to sleep
or else go home
and discover a secret passageway behind the refrigerator
and move the refrigerator back to where it was
and take a shower
and go to sleep
(from Tao Lin’s you are a little bit happier than i am)
