Aww, somebody’s privilege is showing… *pat, pat*
oh god
Huh… Wonder why they’re not invited to all those parties?
Definitely dodged a bullet not attending this school…
"But the important issue, I think, is not that Mr. Roskolenko dislikes Mr. Koch’s work, but that the principles he so dearly guards in doing it are stultifying and arbitrary. Poems are not mature, nor are they childish. I do not believe that analogies to cooking help much, either. Poetry is experience, often peculiar to the poet. The formal values to which, for convenience and expediency, we attempt to ascribe the qualities we admire in a poem are, after all, no more than conveniences. It should be understood that they are signs for the qualities, not absolute rules by which the work is judged. They have nothing to do with the poem ultimately, they are only the language in which we have fallen into the habit of discussing it, they have to do with us. My idea in writing about Mr. Koch’s poems was that this language seemed to have gotten in the way of the work: Mr. Roskolenko’s review was suddenly talking about childishness and maturity and responsibility. This was a disservice to poetry."
— Frank O’Hara, “On And On About Kenneth Koch: A Counter-Rebuttal” (via adornoble)
“Human lives are mysterious in that human beings are not strong enough to live and die just for themselves. It is because human beings always think of living in some kind of ideal, that they soon get bored of living just for themselves. It is because of this that the need to die for something arises. That need is the great cause that people talked in the past. Dying for a great cause was considered the most glorious, heroic, brilliant way of dying. However, there are no great causes now. ” - Yukio Mishima
(via itsthom)
(Source: theduramater, via fuckyeahexistentialism)
"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious."
— When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
(Source: bostonreview, via mildredbonkinc)
- student: can i borrow a pencil
- teacher: i don't know, CAN you?
- student: yes, also colloquial irregularities occur frequently in any language and since you and the rest of our present company understood my intended meaning being particular about the distinctions between "can" and "may" is purely pedantic and arguably pretentious
Apologies for the terrible image quality - I’m lacking scanner access at the minute so I had to take these photos on my phone
I was reading hyperbole and a half’s blog entry explaining their experience of depression and decided to make another sketchy comic based on my experiences with anxiety, which is another mental illness I think people tend to misunderstand quite frequently
Hopefully this will be of use to some people - whether they suffer from anxiety themselves or if they just want to know more about it
Anxiety sucks, in my experience it encompasses passionate self-loathing, inability to relate, and fear of other people.
I’ve gotten better (it was pretty bad) and I’m medicated now, but 2 psychiatrists didn’t help much and the first one gave my a deep found hatred of those kind of situations and my own weakness. Middle School and the first year of High School were especially hard for me. I felt very alone and disappointed but a lot of that resolved itself with friendship. I think that’s the most valuable thing anyone can have in that sort of situation.
(via socialistexan)
