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Grad school is lying to you. You can indulge fixations on obscure topics on your own time. You can sit in a library color-coding notes on articles printed from JSTOR for free. You can argue with dead philosophers in essay format whenever you like. Academia is a state of mind.

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I had the dreadful sensation that I was not really alive or wholly dead. I was a living corpse, unrelated to the world of living people and at the same time deprived of the oblivion and peace of death.

Sadeq Hedayat, The Blind Owl and Other Stories; from 'The Blind Owl', tr. D. P. Costello

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Alaska has some incredible diverse landscapes to offer. 

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How to Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong

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Of Natural Causes: Snake In The Grass - Photography by Sally Rumball

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the phuktal gompa monastery in kashmir is built around a natural cave situated on a cliff of lugnak valley. the cave itself is thought to have served as a shelter for monks - in particular, the sixteen arhats - before the monastery itself was built around it 2,500 years ago. today, it's home to 70 monks and a monastic school.

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“My friends mom collects miniatures of designer chairs and these are some of them 😫” via twitter

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monotype samples for the class i taught last fall

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oil paintings on wood by Angela Lane (1974-)

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Agate | Ametista do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Zodiac Paintings. early 1900s

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Devon Aoki | Issey Miyake (1998) ph. Vincent Peters

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Kate Moss & Mario Sorrenti © Andrew Macpherson

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The Sogetsu School prizes unlikely containers. The crucial component in this wisteria and pussy willow arrangement is the brass Japanese hot water bottle, circa 1988.

At Home with Japanese Design, 1990

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Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly in Bound (1996) dir. Lana & Lily Wachowski

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Antique rugs from Nothern Armenia, Nooter collection.

Armenian Rugs on Facebook.

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Flora, 1997 © Nick Knight