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permalink Quite possibly one of my favorite pages (as a whole page) from a book ever.  Especially the sentence “…sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I’m not living.”

pg 113 from  Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Quite possibly one of my favorite pages (as a whole page) from a book ever.  Especially the sentence “…sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I’m not living.”

pg 113 from  Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

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My daily "Piebald" Google news alert

  • me: http://www.ca.kaango.com/ads/viewad?adid=16521549
  • Sean: the eyes!
  • me: i know, right?
  • me: fuck that dog
  • Sean: oh hey look at me
  • Sean: i'm so fucking adorable
  • Sean: hope you have $450
  • me: WHAT A JERK
  • Sean: that puppy is being a huge dick
  • Sean: oh hey adopt me
  • Sean: try not to
  • me: seriously wtf omg
  • Sean: those piebald searches only ever turn up animals that are too cute
  • me: and snakes.
  • Sean: and snakes
  • me: shakes
  • Sean: i wish
  • Sean: i would like a shake
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We know we are very special. Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?
— Lydia Davis, “Special” from Samuel Johnson is Indignant