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Anonymous asked: Hey! I was wondering if you had the full transcription of Foer's speech from the CAS convocation a couple of years ago? What Nov bulletin did you find it on? Thanks!

I’ve since lost the bulletin, sorry. That was the convocation for Fall 2010.

“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important. So write with a combination of short, medium, and long sentences. Create a sound that pleases the reader’s ear. Don’t just write words. Write music.”

—Gary Provost

aperfectillusion:

Step 1: Go someplace public with your laptop.

Step 2: Click HERE

Step 3: Press f11

Step 4: Start typing frantically.

Step 5: Make sure other people see your screen.

Step 6: ???????

Step 7: Profit

(via satirically-yours)

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the voca people

—time machine mix

shiplikeitscanon:

acciobenedictcumberbatch:

dontstopmeow:

dontcallmecoward:

cupoftea-andcrumpets:

tomsweirdworld:

didsomebodysayteamstarkid:

loonylunalovegood97:

becausenothingelsematters:

shappeyhappy:

z3phyrmon:

firesinmyeyes:

kerzeriver:

tardisexuality:

They’re called Voca People and they cover the history of musical genres in five minutes. Dude.

This is the best thing ever.

Oh.

My.

God.

that was beautiful. Why aren’t these people more well known? THIS should be in the top charts, not ‘stupid hoe’. Seriously, aspire to be this young ones. 

oh

my

fucking

god

Oh shit! They did NOT just do 5 seconds of Smells Like Teen Spirit! OMG!!! Although seriously, this shit is FUCKING awesome. Biggest eargasm EVER

what beauty did my ears just experience??

I fucking love you all, this actually made my day…. like seriously asdfdasgfdfbgtrghr

EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND LISTEN!

This is the most perfect thing in existence.

(via kelhow2288)

Holding hands may seem like an innocent gesture, but they show more than a simple interlocking of fingers.  Your hands are one of the most essential parts of your body: you build with them, feed with them, hold with them, touch with them, fight with them; they are the tools of the human body.  To take a hold of another’s hand is to break from living individually.  It is to link yourself to another being, to momentarily entwine your life with another’s, to promise, for a moment, that you need not face the world alone.  More simple, more aesthetically naive than other forms of affection, the act of holding hands is often trivialised in its true implications.  As the Beatles once said: ”I want to hold your hand”.

Holding hands may seem like an innocent gesture, but they show more than a simple interlocking of fingers.  Your hands are one of the most essential parts of your body: you build with them, feed with them, hold with them, touch with them, fight with them; they are the tools of the human body.  To take a hold of another’s hand is to break from living individually.  It is to link yourself to another being, to momentarily entwine your life with another’s, to promise, for a moment, that you need not face the world alone.  More simple, more aesthetically naive than other forms of affection, the act of holding hands is often trivialised in its true implications.  As the Beatles once said: ”I want to hold your hand”.

(Source: ellie-bartowski, via kelhow2288)

a bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you’re still dreaming but it`s slowly slipping? i wish we could feel like that more often. i also wish i could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere i like. i wish that people didn`t always say ‘just wondering’ when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. and i wish i could get lost in the stars.

listen, there`s a hell of a good universe next door, let`s go

—

- e.e.cummings  (via lavandula)

Let’s go.

(via reckon)

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beinz: ireneclaire: the plants name is called “makahiya” and hiya in tagalog means “shy”. whenever you touch the plants leaves, they immediately fold up together looking as if its really shy hence the name. I loved playing with these when I was in the Philippines. LMAO. This was all i did in the philippines. 

beinz:

ireneclaire:

the plants name is called “makahiya” and hiya in tagalog means “shy”.

whenever you touch the plants leaves, they immediately fold up together looking as if its really shy hence the name.

I loved playing with these when I was in the Philippines.

LMAO. This was all i did in the philippines. 

(Source: jaidefinichon)