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Here is another grammatical point of interest: only transitive verbs have voice. Intransitive verbs cannot shift from active to passive, or from passive to active. No literary sleight of hand can hold someone else accountable for having sneezed your nose or arrived you late. Nor can anyone else do your dying, because die is an intransitive verb. You died. He died. She died. They died. Regardless of whether any of them were salvaged, it was the subject who did the dying, not the man with the gun.
Death, in the end, disappears all voices.
from Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country, by Patricia Evangelista
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Literally what did olivia laing say about loneliness leading to more loneliness. Loneliness being so repulsive that people sense it from you and stay away. Crazy crazy
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In Japanese, they don’t say “moon,” they say “tsuki,” which literally translates to “moon,” and I think that’s how language works.
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“Things don’t have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What’s the function of a galaxy? I don’t know if our life has a purpose and I don’t see that it matters. What does matter is that we’re a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass. […] We’re in the world, not against it. […] The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.”
— Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
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A collection of Juliets
1. Claire Danes
2. Nailea Devora
3. Hailee Steinfeld
4. Condola Rashad
5. Olivia Hussey
6. Fumi Kaneko
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my department has this program where volunteer faculty and students go to schools very far from towns and cities, to very ruralized schools. and then the volunteers would teach reading, writing, speaking and spelling to the kids there and i joined this month's activities and went to this school with no electricity or signal but i didn't need it cause the kids were so energetic and active and it felt nice to just sit on one of the benches during my breaks. i stayed for two days and then returned the next week and am planning to return next month cause the kids are so endearing!!!
also, overall, even if i enjoyed it and learned how to adjust my style of teaching, i realize i cant be a teacher lmao but it's fun playing with first and second graders <33
i have their letters and notes huhu so cutee
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daily reminder that boycotting is not a moral stance but a political strategy, so the whole “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” argument is not the gotcha you think it is
you can refer to BDS if you’d like a list of companies to focus your efforts on. you can refer to this website if you’d like to become more conscientious about what you’re buying and check for brands/products to avoid.
*please note that i am a palestinian who has been boycotting my entire life. do not try to explain to me in the tags or reblogs or replies what a targeted boycott is or complain about giving up your comfort for something that you (incorrectly) believe does not make an impact. being quiet is free. exercise your right to remain silent today.
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