politics and prose

explore-blog:

Celestial Homework – a reading list for Allen Ginsberg’s class “The History of the Beats.”

Complement with Carl Sagan’s reading list, the books Alan Turing checked out of his school library, and David Foster Wallace’s syllabus. 

burnedshoes:

Unknown photographer / Getty Images, Sep. 1962, Three French children wait on a railway platform with their toys and luggage

“On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

nevver:

“I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

harvestheart:

Disparate approaches to leadership

theparisreview:

“And just when I take my one last look back at that house holds them folks I’m leaving behind, I hear Orphelia’s voice, sounding like she’s telling me truth straight in my ear: This ain’t no place for the likes of you. I nod to that smart woman, wherever she’s biding, and head on to find the place that is.”

—Rebecca T. Godwin, from “Keeper of the House”
Photography Credit Franco Fontana

wehadfacesthen:

1950s, American South, photo by Gordon Parks