The earth's weight has been estimated at six sextillion tons (that's a six with twenty-one zeros). Yet it is perfectly balanced and turns easily on its axis. It rotates daily at the the rate of more than a thousand miles per hour, or 25,000 miles each day. This adds up to nine million miles a year. Considering the tremendous weight of six ( Read more... )

“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.”

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
herman melville, moby dick, chapter XC111

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i love when days blur for weeks at a time with no intervals and no interruptions.

450 Turkish Sheep Leap to Their Deaths ( Read more... )

drinking green tea and eating french toast

sometimes I look at you and I think I want to marry you
but most of the time I just want to crucify you for the stupid things you say

of parliaments and pigeons

I like to bake in the closets of model floridian homes while just down the hall
old couples scrutinize the formica and ask if the cabinets come in maple.
Ill probably be dead before im 20 and Im sure ill die laughing at some poor fool
while looking in from the outside.