Huh.
That's interesting, I'm subscribed to Avoidants. I can't remember subscribing, and I've only started thinking of myself as avoidant recently. Maybe I secretly knew it all along.
- homeward
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arohanui- 26th November 2011
The traffic leans on him, cramping his impatience in a hot ball that all jagged rails against impeding tail-lights and the collected weight of one more deadening day. It takes an age, an age and then some, before he wrests free, a fledgling hatched into the night air, where only now have his thoughts room to breathe.
- ink spilt flowing
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- arohanui
- 25th November 2011
In the cool of the mosque, writing is flung high as the call from a minaret, an endless stream, a lush continuance, an ongoing story full of secrets in does not share with me, all uninitiated, without the secret of reading them, these gilt letters that are not icons, yet in their own way a picture of God.
- the heart has its reasons that reason knows not of
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- arohanui
- 30th April 2011
How is love to be reduced to a series of propositions? In truth, what binds people together – as a couple or as a society – always exceeds the reach of a purely rational analysis.
- Giles Fraser, "Why I Loved The Royal Wedding", The Guardian, 30 April 2011
- what it is
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- arohanui
- 29th March 2011
the nature of things
we cannot look her in the face
but the marks she makes
her leavings
these we sweep into a heap
where they burn
with the smell of autumn
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- arohanui
- 3rd February 2011
We train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it's obscene.
- John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now, as spoken by character Walter E Kurtz
- a people without a land
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- arohanui
- 25th January 2011
Condoleezza Rice, secretary of state under George Bush, suggested in 2008 Palestinian refugees could be resettled in South America. "Maybe we will be able to find countries that can contribute in kind," she said. "Chile Argentina, etc."
I can't find words for this.
- Ian Black and Seumas Milne, "Papers Reveal How Palestinian Leaders Gave Up Fight Over Refugees", The Guardian, 24 January 2011
But yeah, you can see why Hamas gained popularity, given the alternative.
