FINGERS CROSSED, even though it'll probably cost us on the back-end as an Amazon seller.
"more like crime minister!" - jeremy cooper
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2913862/Embarrassment-EU-chief-Juncker-sweetheart-tax-deal-Amazon-Luxembourg-nation-s-PM-declared-illegal.html
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Friday, January 16, 2015
Anniversary of Y.I.P. (Youth Party International)
1968 -- US: Youth International Party (Y.I.P.) founded — Country Joe & the Fish, Fugs (includes Tuli Kupferberg, "one of the leading Anarchist theorists of our time" & Ed Sanders, poet, editor, owner of the fabled Peace Eye Book Store), Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner, Phil Ochs, Jerry Rubin, et al (25 artists, writers & revolutionaries).
I spoke to Tolstoy: 'Emma Goldman's coming back!'
He sat there writing on a shard of red & black
Black & Red. Coming back!
Red & Black. They're comin' back!...
— Tuli Kupferberg, excerpt,
PAINT IT RED (& BLACK)
Happy Birthday Alan Harrington
1918 -- Alan Harrington lives. He was with Jack Kerouac, Neal
Cassady, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs & others at ground
zero of what became the Beat Generation. (Harrington aka Hal
Hingham in the later pages of On the Road.) Author of The
Immortalist, most of his books are now out of print.
Alan traveled through other jungles & "despoblados," the
shadowy landscapes of the human mind peopled with
psychopaths & drug users & sexual criminals. He was
convinced decades ago that psychopaths were the coming
thing & soon would pass for normal. Anyone who has
noticed recent elections knows that Alan won that bet.
— Charles Bowden
"Hal lurked at the window [...] he heard clocks. They
were chiming up & down the street.
Altogether, it was fifty-six o'clock."
Thursday, January 15, 2015
51 Of The Most Beautiful Sentences In Literature
“At the still point, there the dance is.” —T. S. Eliot
posted on Dec. 9, 2014, at 12:46 p.m.
We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us about their favorite lines from literature. Here are some of their most beautiful replies.
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2. “In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3. “She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
—J. D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew”
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4. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am.”
—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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6. “Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
—Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Suggested by Danielle O., via Facebook
7. “Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Suggested by Kellie C., via Facebook
8. “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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10. “‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’”
—Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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11. “The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Suggested by Therese K., via Facebook
12. “A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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14. “As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.”
—Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Suggested by Alyssa P., via Facebook
15. “If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”
—W. H. Auden, “The More Loving One”
Suggested by Blake M., via Facebook
16. “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
—John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Suggested by Missy W., via Facebook
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18. “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Suggested by Emily F., via Facebook
19. “America, I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.”
—Allen Ginsburg, “America”
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20. “It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”
—W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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