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Pherenike: New cycling goal!! Love, L. →

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“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel,...”

– Ray Bradbury (via misswallflower)

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: Sackville-West vs. Woolf →

malevichsquare: I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless, nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple, desperate, human way. You, with all your undumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that;… And This is a Love letter. P.

Jan 30th

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Serious business with Jasper Fforde

UF Review: You have said before that your favorite word is “linoleum.” Is it still?
Fforde: It is. ‘Linoleum’ has a lovely internal rhythm to it that rolls off the tongue in a very agreeable manner. It also has the distinction of being the only word to rhyme with ‘Napoleon’, but I don’t expect that helped French poets when they came to write poetry about the Emperor.
UF Review: Do you have a favorite word in Welsh?
Fforde: Slang Welsh for a microwave: ‘Poppety-ping’. While we’re on the subject of Welsh, ‘Penguin’ is a Welsh word meaning ‘white head’. The more observant among us will note that a Penguin doesn’t have a white head — it’s black. The reason, apparently, is that a Penguin was a Welsh word for the Great Auk, a now-vanished sea bird of the Northern latitudes. When it became extinct, the word simply travelled across to their distant Antarctic cousins. There. You heard it here first.

Jan 30th

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Ladies and Gentlemints, Jasper Fforde

HIS terrifying, awesome, tangled, putting the web in website, WEBSITE HERE My own long-time favourite author. RIGHT UP MY META ALLEY. Pick one up, read it. Just do it. You’ll lose gain some abs from stifling your laughter and maybe learn a bit about the world of Classical Literature you never really knew. As Jasper says, for those who like their Literary Fantasy spread deep, thick and...

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Watch

Here begins a day of book-related posts in honour of Lysander’s literary passion, for which I have magnificent amounts of admiration, and to satisfy my enjoyment of things litararily meta. Real world within a fictional world within a fictional world within a real world? EVERYDAY WITH BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER PLEASE. This one is called “Mourir aupres de toi” by Spike Jonze...

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