“We write to make it possible for the unwritten world to express itself through us.”

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Filosofie: Gelijkmoedige of zelfs blijde acceptatie van de dood is een trend. Ongetwijfeld hebben vergrijzing én de pandemie de populariteit van dit rustig-gaan-sterven-genre aangejaagd.

i've not previously considered myself a fan of the Times writer Caitlin Moran but her analysis of the bizarre stream of self-generated revelations by some (ex)members of the British royal family smashes it out of the park, to use her own words : they have 'gone Marx and seized the means of production' — and it's hilarious to boot. archived 5 Jan 2023

But only under supervision of licensed guides.

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wowsers. everyone has been raving about this book for three years and i've never heard of it. ok. weird?!

eeeew creepy

RIP 😢😢

De mensen met bijna-doodervaringen noemt hij zijn grootste leermeesters.

weird story about the italian army growing pot in florence that is blasted with gamma rays. archived 28 Dec 2022

One of the most powerful ways to support someone is also the simplest: Start a conversation.

We are asked to adapt to a hostile environment, while at the same time the possibility of transforming that environment is suppressed.

Before entering Chestnut Lodge, one of the most elite psychiatric hospitals in the US, Ray Osheroff was the kind of charismatic, overworked physician we have come to associate with the American dream.

Even guardians of America's atomic clocks say time doesn't work the way we think it does.

i love stories about forgers and forged art works and people who buy them because they want to believe that they are real.

This is a really difficut dilemma.

The Times columnist who was born two hundred years too late has been reading Roy Jenkins’s biography of Gladstone and swoons.

Jo Malone: My nose is so sensitive I can predict snow | News | The Times 22 Dec 2022

This is great, even if you don't like urine.

No one in Didion’s circle knew the mysterious painting’s origin.

there are so many funny lines in this i gave up trying to highlight them all.

this is brilliant

Doris Salcedo

fantastische kerel

the stranglers were never punk, this is correct. they were hated by the punks because they were posers who wanted to be rock stars.

james marriott puts the boot into jan morris

ha jane horrocks and ian dury were an item?!

waiting to telephone mother early 1960s

wow what a life!