December 2011
24 posts
“We’re living in a den of thieves. And it’s contagious.”
– Regina Spektor (via nezua)
maymay:
The next plan could be no plan, to be not to have a plan. You could wander, probably for anywhere from 6 weeks to 6 months, and let that be the thing you did before the thing you’re going to do.
Where it’s at.
Derrick Jensen: There’s this absolutely extraordinary book called The Nazi Doctors by Robert Jay Lifton, and in this book he describes how it was that men — people, but men in this case — who had taken the Hippocratic Oath could work in Nazi death camps. And what he found was that many of the doctors who worked in the death camps actually cared very deeply for the health of the inmates. And, you know, Mengele was, you know, horrible. But a lot of the sort of straight-line doctors were just — they would do whatever they could. They would give them an extra scrap of potato to eat or - the inmates. Or they would hide them from the selection officers who were going to kill them. Or they would -
Amy Goodman: To keep their experiments going?
Derrick Jensen: No, no, no. They would hide them from the selection officers who were going to kill them. They would do this to protect the inmate for that day. They would put them to bed, you know. They would actually do everything — if they were in pain, they would give them aspirin to lick. They would do what they could to help, except for the most important thing of all, which is they wouldn’t question the existence of the entire death camp itself. So they would find themselves working within the rules, however they could, to try to improve conditions marginally. And in retrospect, of course, that’s just not sufficient. And as a longtime activist, I see myself and other activists doing the same thing, that what we do is we do everything that is allowed by those in power to attempt to stop their destruction. But the problem is, whenever we figure out a way to use their rules to actually stop them, they change the rules.
“If your experience is that your water comes from the tap and that your food...”
– Derrick Jensen (via cultureofresistance)
True for so many things.
“Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and...”
– - George R.R. Martin (via indisposablehero)
This is one of the most beautiful quotes I think I have ever read. I love it, and I will treasure it for my entire life.
(via draodoir-mna)
Lord of the Rings Scholar to Write Hobbit Cookbook... →
fuckyeahthehobbitmovie:
Tolkien scholar Astrid Tuttle Winegar got a book deal with Quirk Books to write A Hobbit’s Cookbook: Eleventy-one Sweets, Snacks, and Savories Inspired by Middle-Earth. The “unofficial culinary journey” will not actually be exclusive to hobbits but will also feature foods for “elves, orcs, and even Gollum.” Gollum eats? Okay.
Anyway, recreating Hobbit food is not a new...
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“All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is,...”
– Rookie, The Season of the Witch (via azelie)
wow, mind blown. never going to look at the exorcist the same way ever a-fucking-gain.
(via witchnymph)
whoa.
(via loveyourchaos)
