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Clever Turtles
"Science is interesting; if you don't
agree, you can fuck off."
agree, you can fuck off."
As long as people continue to believe in an afterlife that has a higher precedence than this plane of existence, …
As a 원어인 선생님, your boss will be shocked when you tell him you will not renew your contract. He will do this even though you told him you would not for the past six months. He will do this despite the fact that he "accidentally" opened your GRE scores that were sent to the school, and that he has seen copies of your grad school applications in the copy room. He will do this despite the fact that you have been discussing your desire to leave the school with every other employee. He will do this despite the fact that you discussed the difficulty of recruiting your replacement two months ago.
For being a foreigner, Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy -- a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a paranthesis in what had once been ordinary life, only to discover that that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding. Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curiosity from strangers, the same combination of pity and respect.From THE NAMESAKE, by Jhumpa Lahiri
It's way too late, but I haven't posted for a while, and if I don't post now I probably will not get around to it, so here goes half-baked thoughts.
English literature belongs to a very narrow group, of having transcended a national literature to become a world literature. This is also true of French, and to a lesser extent some other language's literature, but due to historical circumstances, the English language allows an unprecedented level of cultural transference across several continents.
Not only is this lo-fi indy band fronted by hot identical twins, they're socialists, and they can make obscure references to at least six conspiracy theories in a 3-minute pop song.
It's like, Dude, man, Awesome!
Is it just me, or are breasts given too much importance in Japan?
I was reading the list, and there were so many options that made me say, "Dude, I love that shit." Like fancy sandwich shops!
Crap, now I have a craving for a real sandwich.
