Paper Man

"The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics."

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:34:02 -0400

““The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.””

- Hannu Rajaniemi; The Quantum Thief (via the-relativity-librarian)

tomscholes: anime-backgrounds: As if you don’t already know…...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:20:50 -0400

tomscholes:

anime-backgrounds:

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."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:50:23 -0400

“Never memorize something you can look up.”

- Albert Einstein (via scienceapplied)

Rawls: For consider: each man in realising his own interests is certainly free to balance his own losses against his own gains ... Why should not a society act on precisely the same principle applied to the group and therefore regard that which is rational for one man as right for an association of men?

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:47:02 -0400

Rawls: For consider: each man in realising his own interests is certainly free to balance his own losses against his own gains ... Why should not a society act on precisely the same principle applied to the group and therefore regard that which is rational for one man as right for an association of men?

Nozick: To use a person in this way does not sufficiently respect and take account of the fact that he is a separate person, that his is the only life he has.

"Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self..."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:13:31 -0400

“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.”

- Iain M Banks, Consider Phlebas

"Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:53:41 -0400

“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.”

- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

"What we could see was just the steamer we were on, her outlines blurred as though she had been on..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:50:36 -0400

“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.”

- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

"Have you ever felt as if you could actually feel time flowing away from you? As if life was passing..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:43:24 -0400

“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?”

- Robin Hobb, Fool’s Errand

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:55:56 -0400

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”

- Terry Pratchett (via scienceapplied)

"The bomb lives only as it is falling."

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 06:56:11 -0400

“The bomb lives only as it is falling.”

- Iain M. Banks

When he goes, he’ll leave a crater.

(via wordsbydan)

"I heard the last coin fall into the bowels of the public phone, the sound of leaves, the wind..."

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:40:26 -0400

“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.”

- Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives

"Do you plan to make revolution with clichés?"

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:20:27 -0400

“Do you plan to make revolution with clichés?”

- Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives

"Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? That you end up being friends with writers."

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:55:00 -0400

“Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? That you end up being friends with writers.”

- Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives

"The profession of poetry was as diverse as humanity itself, and humanity, as we all know, was a..."

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:54:04 -0400

“The profession of poetry was as diverse as humanity itself, and humanity, as we all know, was a conglomeration of weaknesses.”

- Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives

welovestopmotion: The Idea by Frenemy and Seoul Urban art...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 08:55:22 -0400

welovestopmotion:

The Idea by Frenemy and Seoul Urban art Project

"There came the steady sound of the giant’s strides as he waded on. Somehow he seemed a doomed figure..."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:49:27 -0400

“There came the steady sound of the giant’s strides as he waded on. Somehow he seemed a doomed figure to Corum - a creature destined to drag its nets for ever through the oceans of the world, never finding the thing he sought.
‘They say he fishes for his soul,’ murmured Rhalina.”

- Michael Moorcock, The Queen of the Swords (via thephoenixsaid)

"I am anything you please, Prince Corum. What does “true” mean in this context? I can be anything I..."

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:02:59 -0400

“I am anything you please, Prince Corum. What does “true” mean in this context? I can be anything I choose – or anything you choose, if you prefer. Consider me evil and I will don the appearance of evil. Consider me good – and I will take on a form that fits the part. I care not. My only wish is to exist in peace, you see. To while away my time. And if you wish to play a drama, some game of your own devising, I will play it until it begins to bore me.”

- Michael Moorcock, The Knight of the Swords (via thephoenixsaid)

myjetpack: A book of my cartoons will be out in a few...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:13:18 -0400

myjetpack:

A book of my cartoons will be out in a few weeks!

"A while later, I wandered on the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that..."

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:20:21 -0400

“A while later, I wandered on the hinterlands of sleep. Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in the twilight of both states, and finds the truths that are hidden alike by daylight and dreams. Things we are not ready to know abide in that place, awaiting that unguarded frame of mind.”

- Robin Hobb, Fool’s Errand

"What, for example, shall we say of love of money? There is nothing originally more desirable about..."

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:49:04 -0400

“What, for example, shall we say of love of money? There is nothing originally more desirable about money than about any heap of glittering pebbles.”

- John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism