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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

Cormac McCarthy; No Country For Old Men (via wordpainting)

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I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.

David Foster Wallace; Infinite Jest

[I’ve posted this before, but since today is his birthday, I’ll re-post it.]

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wordpainting: There are no adequate adjectives to describe the weight and caliber of this work. It made me laugh aloud, tear up, it tugged at my heart, left me wanting more and kept me satisfied. Foer’s main character, Oskar Schell, is a boy who lost his father in one of the twin towers on September 11, 2001. The story is about how Oskar finds life in the midst of losing life. Assuming his father left him with a task to find what lock a mysterious key fits, Oskar spends the entire length of the novel searching for the lock to which the key belongs. Along the way Oskar encounters many people who tell him their story, their struggles, their dreams and desires, their losses. Oskar’s life overlaps with the lives of those he meets, and he learns that life is filled with ugly twists and turns, it’s filled with small details that are not necessarily as important to certain people as they are to others. He learns that family is not always merely conventional. He experiences the loss and struggles of others. But most importantly, Oskar encounters people who have survived, as he is surviving. They have found a way to move forward. This novel is ingenious, and the ending is so poignant and important. Everyone has experienced loss in one way or the other, everyone has experienced pain, love, family, these are common themes. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close takes the reader through these common themes from a different angle, a different perspective, upside down, right side up, sideways, and backwards. This work is a must read, I highly recommend it. Because I cannot recommend this reading enough!! Don’t see the movie first!
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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books.

Julian Barnes; Flaubert’s Parrot (via wordpainting)

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─ 10 Universities Offering Free Writing Courses Online ─

writingsbycrscott:

Are you an aspiring writer who would love to take some university courses on writing, but don’t have the money to spend on classes?

Well don’t fear.  Here is a list of ten universities who are offering free online writing courses to anyone who wants to through a program called the OpenCourseWare Initiative.

Though on their own they won’t give you any official credits, the courses offered are quite in-depth, some taking up to sixteen weeks to complete and are comparable to the classes one would take in a professional writing degree program.

If you go to the link above, you’ll get more detailed links on these writing courses.  Listed below are the universities offering the free writing courses:

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
  • Utah State University (usu.edu)
  • Open University (open.ac.uk)
  • University of Utah (utah.edu)
  • University of Massachusetts Boston (umb.edu)
  • Purdue University (owl.english.purdue.edu)
  • Steven Barnes’ UCLA Writing Course (lifewrite.com)
  • News University (newsu.com)
  • E-Zine University (ezineuniversity.com)
  • Wikiversity (wikiversity.org)

         

I plan on enjoying this. I have always wanted to take a writing course, but I can’t because my major does not allow for electives.

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h2oetry: 11/22/63 Dad gave me money for Christmas… so I bought this book!!!
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dirty-soapbox: Breath of Light in Avalon illumination
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

Isabel Allende; City of the Beasts (via wordpainting)

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wordpainting: A picture I took at the John Steinbeck Center in Salinas, CA, last year.
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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

Jasper Fforde; The Well of Lost Plots (via wordpainting)