I’m currently reading an Almanac of World History. Best line so far: “…the Yuezhi disliked the Xiongnu, in part because the nomads had killed the Yuezhi king and used his skull as a drinking vessel.”
It pales in comparison, however, to this passage from my college photography textbook:
“The sun, although large, is so far away that it appears small.”
The mind, it boggles.
this is my blog where i write about things. i live in england with this one guy i’m married to, but i haven’t always.
(katie + stephan)
i sometimes take pictures like this one:
(5-year anniversary iceland trip)
i collect shiny things at magpieing.tumblr.com.
i blog about vaguely design-related things at kwestcott.com.
i'm currently reading:
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
Njal's Saga
aka Burnt Njal
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
(58 of 101 books)
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I think just about any quote from John Madden would fit here. Something like “When this guy runs down the field and isn’t caught he scores a touchdown.”
The history almanac also helpfully included the invention of the kaleidoscope in its list of awesome inventions/discoveries and gave credit to the guy who named oxygen–not the guy who discovered it, but the guy you named it, and named it erroneously at that.