February 2012
9 posts
Jeremy and Jin →
jaycaspiankang:
In the summer after graduating from college, as part of my introduction to New York City, I took the A train down to the fabled West 4th Street basketball courts. All melancholy literary types are required to vividly remember, and then write about, their first encounters with The City and so I,…
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“The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.”
– @paulgilding at TED (via kateoplis)
mariamjaan:
claerwen:
Kismet is a word derived from Turkish and Hindi-Urdu, meaning Fate or Destiny, a predetermined course of events. The word evolved from Persian قسمت (qesmat) meaning “lot,” from qasama, “to divide, allot.”
The first recorded use of the word in English was by Edward Backhouse Eastwick who used the word, spelled “kismat”, in his 1849 novel Dry Leaves from Young Egypt.
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““This invention, O king,” said Theuth, “will make the Egyptians wiser and will...”
– In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates repeats the speech of an Egyptian King named Thamus to Theuth, the god who has just invented writing.
- The Elixir of Reminding
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“As for gauging what this victory means, well I received an email from a friend...”
– - Mohsin Khan, Pakistan Team Coach
Co sign.
January 2012
42 posts
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“Oh, I have taken too little care of this!” King Lear cries out on the heath in...”
– The Caging of America (The New Yorker)