January 2012
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“I lay on my bed and looked up. I had a pink floodlight in lieu of a regular...”
– Lorrie Moore, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
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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
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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 ...
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John Green's tumblr: Cows: The New Rules →
fishingboatproceeds:
Driving through west Texas today, Hank and Katherine and I have made some important innovation to the Game of Cows, and we thought you might like to know our rules. (For those who don’t know, the Game of Cows is a road trip game in which you say “cows” when you see more than one cow. It’s very complicated. Oh, also, you can get points for saying, “dead people” whenever you...
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“It was like that class at school where the teacher talks about Realization,...”
– Amy Hempel, Reasons to Live
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Looking for Alaska, by John Green
Miles: Why do you smoke so damn fast?
Alaska: Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.
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“Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
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“Because I love art, I am offering the following ideas for paintings to all...”
– Jack Handey, Ideas For Paintings
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“As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean.
“Conjoiner,...”
– Peter Van Houten, An Imperial Affliction (via fishingboatproceeds)
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“You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class,...”
– Hazel’s dad in John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars
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The Fault in Our Stars
Dear John Green,
I met my mom at the Chinese market today for some preemptive Chinese New Year shopping and she brought me, completely unprompted, my gloriously signed copy of The Fault in Our Stars!
I’m only about halfway through, so I have to return to reading immediately, but I wanted to say something about scrambled eggs. I think the scrambled eggs are a metaphor for Hazel. She feels...
Mockingjay
I realize this is ridiculous considering that I just read The Hunger Games a few days ago, BUT, I just finished Mockingjay and I feel disappointed. There were definite peaks in the plot for me: namely a few twists and the deaths of some very likeable characters. Despite the poignancy of killing of some of an audience’s favorite characters (which I especially appreciate after reading the...
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