April 2010
276 posts
“Until 2007, the California Penal Code Section 26 stated that...”
– Idiot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The term theory-theory (or “theory theory”) is a theory in cognitive...”
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March 2010
243 posts
More Platanov goodness
Sorry if this doesn’t interest you, it’s more for my own remembering.
“Outside the window grew pine trees that had begun their direct journey into celestial happy space; the weak voices of some kind of insignificant birds were singing their last drowsy songs; and crickets, those watchmen of the dark, were letting out their own meek, peaceful sounds, about how all was well and...
“In 1998, Pakistani nuclear scientist Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood proposed in a...”
– Genie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu...”
– Ubuntu (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Næss states that from an ecological point of view “the right of all forms...”
– Deep ecology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“North Dakota cuisine includes Knoephla soup: a thick, stew-like chicken soup...”
– North Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I love reading about regional cuisines of America. So many things I’ve never heard of…
Musiques Traditionelles du Burundi - Boing Boing →
Beat you to it, Boingboing! Weird that they found this pretty obscure album, too, though.
Favorite passages from Andrei Platanov's "Among...
“Screeches, squeaks, and a faint muttering filled the forest, perhaps meaning bliss and satisfaction, perhaps meaning that someone had perished. Moist birch leaves shone in the mist with the green inner light of their life; invisible insects were rocking them in the silence of the steamy damp rising from the earth. Some far-off small animal began to whimper meekly in its hiding place; no one...
List of Hollywood derivatives
Bollywood - Hindi - language cinema from Bombay (Mumbai), India
Tollywood - Telugu language cinema from Andhra Pradesh, India
Gollywood - Gujarati cinema from India
Kollywood - Tamil language cinema from the Kodambakkam district of Chennai, India
Lollywood - Cinema from the Pakistani city of Lahore
Pollywood - Cinema from the Pakistani city of Peshawar
Dhallywood - Cinema of Dhakar,...
More Platanov quotes, from the collection of short...
“The White Sea Canal was built with astonishingly primitive technology. ‘The pickaxes [were] slices of barely sharpened metal, tied to wooden staves with leather or string. The saws [consisted] of flat metal sheets, with teeth crudely cut into them…One inmate remembered that “there was no technology whatsoever…Everything was done by hand, sometimes with the help of...
Favorite passages from Andrei Platanov's "Soul",...
“Was it really true that his own Dzhan nation would also soon lie down somewhere nearby, and that it would be covered with earth by the wind and forgotten by memory, because the nation had never managed to build anything in stone or metal and had conceived no eternal beauty?”
“Chagataev could not understand complete, indifferent forgetting; he himself remembered people he had...
Favorite passages from Andrei Platanov's "Soul",...
“She said that her child was getting ready to be born; he must be already thinking something inside her body, because he often moved around and seemed discontented. “But I pet him,” Vera went on, “I stroke my stomach and I put my face as close to him as I can and I say: ‘What do you want? You’re warm and quiet there. I keep as still as I can so I don’t...
“Russenorsk (Norwegian for “Russo-Norwegian”) was a dual-source...”
– Russenorsk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Favorite passages from Andrei Platanov's "Soul,"...
“He knew from a childhood memory how strange and sad it is to see a familiar place after a long separation. Your heart is still bound to the place, but the unmoving objects have forgotten you and do not recognize you; it is as if they have been living an active and happy life without you, and you have been alone in your feeling - and now here you are before them, an unknown and pitiful...
“A Russian reader instinctively imagines a tortoise to be feminine. In folktales...”
– Introduction to Andrei Platanov’s Soul
“In the essay, Loos’s “passion for smooth and precious...”
– Ornament and crime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What a douche.
“Project Stormfury was an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones by flying aircraft...”
– Project Stormfury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Ecstasy, (or ekstasis) from the Ancient Greek, έκ-στασις (ex-stasis), “to...”
– Ecstasy (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“A Russian stove was a very large brick or clay structure taking up between one...”
– “Note on the Peasant ‘Hut,’” from Andrei Platanov’s Soul
“I learned many things in the quiet of that room … I learned that...”
– Destination Subconscious: Cary Grant and LSD - WFMU’s Beware of the Blog
Yes, Cary Grant loved acid.
“Truman Bethurum (August 21, 1898 – May 21, 1969) was the second of the classic...”
– Truman Bethurum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
UFO stories in the 1950s Daily Breeze???
“When Prophecy Fails is a 1956 classic book in social psychology by Leon...”
– When Prophecy Fails - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 