As if you don’t already know… The great masterpiece by Hayao Miyazaki. Spirited Away. Created by Studio Ghibli.
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As if you don’t already know… The great masterpiece by Hayao Miyazaki. Spirited Away. Created by Studio Ghibli.
You’ll want to follow this blog :)
Never memorize something you can look up.
Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.
Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of the sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances.
What we could see was just the steamer we were on, her outlines blurred as though she had been on the point of dissolving, and a misty strip of water, perhaps two feet broad, around her - and that was all. The rest of the world was nowhere, as far as our eyes and ears were concerned. Just nowhere. Gone, disappeared; swept off without leaving a whisper or a shadow behind.
Have you ever felt as if you could actually feel time flowing away from you? As if life was passing you by and you were caught in a backwater with the dead fish and old sticks?
In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
The bomb lives only as it is falling.
Iain M. Banks
When he goes, he’ll leave a crater.
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I heard the last coin fall into the bowels of the public phone, the sound of leaves, the wind whipping dead leaves, a sound like cables tangling and untangling and then slipping apart in the void. Poetic misery.
