i wish my prostate was in my lungs so i could orgasm from smoking
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tea time reads book club october pick → babel by r.f. kuang
“i think translation can be much harder than original composition in many ways. the poet is free to say whatever he likes, you see – he can choose from any number of linguistic tricks in the language he’s composing in. word choice, word order, sound – they all matter, and without any one of them the whole thing falls apart. that’s why shelley writes that translating poetry is about as wise as casting a violet into a crucible. so the translator needs to be translator, literary critic, and poet all at once – he must read the original well enough to understand all the machinery at play, to convey its meaning with as much accuracy as possible, then rearrange the translated meaning into an aesthetically pleasing structure in the target language that, by his judgment, matches the original. the poet runs untrammeled across the meadow. the translator dances in shackles.”
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AU: Six of Crows as a Tumblr Network [click for higher quality]
The crows are a sort of subgroup of the dregs. They were formed when Brekker was recruited to put together a team to break into the Fjerdan Ice Court. Have fun navigating Ketterdam. No mourners, no funerals.
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THE OUTSIDERS; S.E. HINTON
“I had taken the long way around, but I was finally home. To stay.”
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beefleaf
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guy in a band @ his gf: hey I wrote you a song…..kinda nervous
stacy: aww no it’s okay let’s hear it :)
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happy oikawa day 👑
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sometimes i think about how constellations are an entirely man-made construct and don’t actually exhist inherently in nature. i mean, the universe just gave us stars, and we saw art and myths and stories in them. the capacity that humans have for seeing purpose in the incidental makes me realize just how lonely we are on this planet, desperately searching for meaning elsewhere in the universe.
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Giovanni Gasparro
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