"But there was nothing about the little, low-rambling, more or less identical homes of Northumberland Estates to interest or to haunt, no chance of loot that would be any more than the ordinary, waking-world kind the cops hauled you in for taking; no small immunities, no possibilities for hidden life or otherworldly presence; no trees, secret routes, shortcuts, culverts, thickets that could be made hollow in the middle – everything in the place was right out in the open, everything could be seen at a glance; and behind it, under it, around the corners of its houses and down the safe, gentle curves of its streets, you came back, you kept coming back, to nothing; nothing but the cheerless earth."
Thomas Pynchon, "The Secret Integration"
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
Catherynne Valente (via sigh-twombly)
(Source: theblastofatrumpet)
- Flannery O’Connor, 1960 (via jchjackson)
The Go-Betweens - “Spring Rain”
It’s neither spring nor raining here, but I had this stuck in my head this morning nonetheless. Maybe because last night I discovered that my original Go-Betweens tag doesn’t work (because I included the hyphen because goddamnit tumblr). I know I posted two songs of theirs very early on and retagged them, but it’s still annoying (especially considering those two are among my favourite music videos of all time).
how have so many academics basically become “how do you expect to survive in the real world” internet trolls re: trigger warnings
how many op ed pieces do you need to write in order to exhaust your need to whine about being asked to say smth like “this book has ____ in it jsyk”
the fact that several radical~ academics have expressed support for internet troll level of hostility towards trigger warning just goes to show that a) making their work accessible was never one of their main concerns (since tws are an accessibility issue), b) they’re very invested in maintaining classroom dynamics in which they have all the power and students can’t make any kind of decisions about how they learn (by asking your teacher to teach you in a different, more effective way, you’re threatening their “academic freedom”) and c) they never cared about disabled students specifically and probably said no to students asking for other kinds of reasonable accommodations in the past
(Source: itsafuckedupsociety)
