August 2010
86 posts
Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon →
crashinglybeautiful:
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon occurs when a person, after having learned some (usually obscure) fact, word, phrase, or other item for the first time, encounters that item again, perhaps several times, shortly after having learned it.
I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am...
– Augusten Burroughs (via thisisemilysblog)
shorpy
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
adj. yearning to move into a photo from a hundred years ago, to wade into the blurred-edge sepia haze that hangs in the air between people in hats and petticoats who walk the bare earth, who leer stoically into this dusty and dangerous future, whose battered shoes are anchors locked fast in the fantasy that none of it risks turning out any other way but the way it...