by the Boy With a Monocle
This is in the Forest of Dean, in the county of Gloucestershire; a truly magical place where J.K. Rowling lived (at Tutshill) from 1974-1983; and from which J.R.R. Tolkien received his inspiration for Middle Earth in the LOTR series.(via bewitchingbritain)
Photo: woodendreams (by Chri.Spins)
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visualcocaine: Aventadors.
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After all, things like public libraries, used bookstores, and the widespread practice of lending books to friends all cost publishers money. But nobody (I hope) is going to introduce the Stop Used Bookstores Now Act purely on these grounds.
By Matthew Yglesias, Slate
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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know, you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
Oscar Wilde
cjwho: Mind Blowing Book Sculptures by Guy Laramee
If life on Earth was summarised as a single year, with 1 January being the first moment there was life on Earth, and 31 December being today, then dinosaurs appeared on 5 December and became extinct on 24 December. Humans arrived a few minutes before midnight. Of course, as Alan points out, you have to assume time is linear.
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again performed by Sierra Boggess for The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary show at the Royal Albert Hall (via little-lotthe)
The Hunter in Johnny Depp (Vanity Fair)
Photo: Terry Richardson/Vanity Fair
A true thing badly expressed becomes a lie.
Stephen Fry
March 2011, Vanity Fair
Ryan Reynolds, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, James Franco, Jennifer Lawrence, Anthony Mackie, Olivia Wilde, Jesse Eisenberg, Mila Kunis, Robert Duvall, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Garrett Hedlund, and Noomi Rapace
Photographed by Norman Jean Roy, styled by Jessica Diehl
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, open-mindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically… We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find that the serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books. Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and—since there is no other metaphor—also the soul.
Christopher Hitchens (via kateoplis)
It does concentrate the mind to realise that your time is even more rationed than you thought it was. And though I can be stoic in the point of myself about that because everyone has to go sometime and whatever day came that the newspapers came out and I wasn’t there to read them, I’ve always thought that will be a bad day, at least for me.
Christopher Hitchens, in memoriam (The Telegraph)
