July 2011
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“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
– Virginia Woolf
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First man-made organ successfully transplanted. →
afghanibanani:
A 36-year-old man who had tracheal cancer has received a new lab-made windpipe seeded with his own stem cells in a procedure in Sweden they call the first successful attempt of its kind, officials said Thursday.
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“Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880, trans. Constance Garnett
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Trading Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri →
It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and...
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“The dream is too often about myself. To correct this; and to forget one’s own...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 22 December 1927
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June 2011
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