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colette under the pillow like a knife

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hilary, playwright.
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progression of the fiennes family in ascending order of somehow least to most absurd names

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arealgoldmouth

1st person: i’ll have a baked potadah….and a salad

2nd person: 

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monkeysaysficus

In actual goddamned tears

I’m the mixed vegetables 

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progression of the fiennes family in ascending order of somehow least to most absurd names

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todropscience

North american researchers at UC Berkeley and California Academy of Sciences have found that the larger Pacific-striped octopus has a unique hunting strategy: Rather than pounce on its prey, it stalks and gently taps it to startle it. Often this drives it into the octopus’s waiting arms…. 

The larger Pacific striped octopus , is, despite its name, no bigger than a tangerine.  Also uses a “slow bounce” to hunt. With its body flattened, and dorsal arms reaching forward, the octopus glides with sporadic bursts of hopping movements before it snatches up its prey of choice.

The octopus is rare, in fact, science has yet no even give it a formal scientific name (belong to Octopus genus). Is poorly understood, however, a recent study shown, they are somewhat social, they mate face-to-face, and the females produce multiple batches of offspring.

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marinebiologyforever

Octopus 🐙

Truth coming out of her well to eat a shrimp

This is so funny to me the way he touch

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Gary Johnson spilled scalding hot anti environmentalism teas when he said the sun is gonna expand and kill everything eventually

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how sad is it to attend dangerous liaisons alone

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fuckindiva

You have no excuse now. To help you celebrate Noirvember here’s a list of films noir in the public domain:

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A Life at Stake (1954) // Amazing Mr. X, The aka The Spiritualist (1948) // Basketball Fix, The (1951) // Beat the Devil (1953) // Behind Green Lights (1946) // Big Bluff (1950) // Big Combo, The (1955) // Blonde Ice (1948) // Borderline (1950) // Capture, The (1950) // Cause for Alarm! (1950) // Chase, The (1946) // Club Paradise (1945) // Convict’s Code (1939) // D.O.A. (1950) // Dementia, aka Daughter of Horror (1955) // Detour (1945) // Fear in the Night (1947) // File on Thelma Jordan, The (1950) // Five Minutes to Live, aka Door-to-Door (1961) // For You I Die (1947)
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Gaslight (1944) // Great Flamarion, The (1945) // Green Glove, The (1952) // Guilty Bystander (1950) //  Guest in the House (1944) // He Walked by Night (1948) // Hitch-Hiker, The (1953) // Hoodlum, The (1951) House on 92nd Street, The (1945) // I Love Trouble (1948) // Impact (1940) // Inner Sanctum (1948) // Jail Bait (1954) // Jigsaw (1949) // Johnny O’Clock (1947) // Kansas City Confidential (1953) // Key Lime Pie (a short noir animation, 2007) // Lady Confesses, The (1945) // Lady Gangster (1942) // Limping Man, The (1953) // Man in the Attic (1954) // Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1951) // Naked Kiss, The (1964) // Odd Man Out (1944) // Parole, Inc. (1948) // Payoff, The (1935) // Please Murder Me (1956) // Port of New York (1949) //  Red House, The (1947)
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Saint Louis Bank Robbery, The (1959) // Scar, The aka Hollow Triumph (1948) // Scarlet Street (1945) // Second Woman, The (1951) // Shed No Tears (1948) // Shock (1946) // Shoot to Kill (1947) // Strange Illusion (1945) // Strange Love of Martha Ivers, The (1946) // Strange Woman, The (1946) // Stranger, The (1946) // Sobaka (neo-noir, 2008) // St. Benny the Dip (1951) // Suddenly (1954) // Sun Sets At Dawn, The (1950) // They Made Me a Criminal (1939) // They Made Me a Killer (1946) // Three Steps North (1951) // Timetable (1956) // Too Late for Tears (1949) // Trapped (1949) // Two Dollar Bettor (1951) // Walk the Dark Street (1956) // Whispering City (1947) // Whistle Stop (1946) // Woman on the Run (1950) // Wrong Road (1937) 
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Surrounded by those you love, and unwilling to inflict pain on them, you deliberately talk down your suffering, and thus deprive yourself of the comfort you crave. Next, you discover that your pain, while always new to you, quickly becomes repetitive and banal to your intimates; you fear becoming a symptoms bore. Meanwhile, the anticipation of indignities to come - and the terror of disgusting those you love - makes suicide not just tempting but logical; the catch is that those you love have already insisted that you live, if only for them.

Julian Barnes, from his introduction to Alphonse Daudet’s In the Land of Pain - Daudet’s disjointed but poignant notes on his progressing chronic pain and illness.

Daudet was one of the literary community of the late 19th century who died of syphilitic complications, but he suffered for years before he died and channeled that into entries in a diary of sorts that he had planned to eventually turn into a not-quite-memoir and sell as a novel.

#interesting book but the daudets are infamous for being as antisemitic as they were#lit#julian barnes#alphonse daudet#pain#illness#suicide