January 2012
3 posts
“Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always...”
– Tom Waits (via thebronzemedal)
“all, animal, ashes, back, bark, belly, berry, big, bird, bite, black, blood,...”
– The 200 words chosen by linguist Morris Swadesh as the basic vocabulary template for all human languages (as reported in John D’Agata’s endlessly fascinating About a Mountain, which I devoured on a three-hour bus ride home from Calgary earlier today).
Notice that why isn’t included. Nicely echoes a...
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the...”
– Albert Einstein. (via ecantwell)