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As I leave the house to pick up my dinner
(because I’m too lazy to cook) I want to wave to each person I pass by and say,
“Yes, hello there. Hi. You see me? Yes, my name is Kate, the girl with her underwear lines showing through her yoga pants and wearing her father’s sweater, unwashed hair and no makeup, and I will be the future of the fashion industry dictating how you will all dress. Hello.”
How do you feel now?
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Tumblr - injecting conversation into social networking!
Loving the fact that when writing notes i am not confined to certain amount of characters! When discussing something interesting or important it is not fair to limit ourselves to 120 characters, how do you do it justice!? That’s why twitter is so full of complete worthless junk, of what people are wearing or what train there on. Yes soundbites can be great fun, but they are just another nail in the coffin of conversation. ❤ Tumblr for freedom of expression - in however many characters you like.
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“ The men of B Company were in a dangerous state of mind. They had lost five men in a firefight the day before. The morning of Feb. 8, 1968, brought unwelcome orders to resume their sweep of the countryside, a green patchwork of rice paddies along Vietnam’s central coast.
They met no resistance as they entered a nondescript settlement in Quang Nam province. So Jamie Henry, a 20-year-old medic, set his rifle down in a hut, unfastened his bandoliers and lighted a cigarette.
Just then, the voice of a lieutenant crackled across the radio. He reported that he had rounded up 19 civilians, and wanted to know what to do with them. Henry later recalled the company commander’s response:
Kill anything that moves.
Henry stepped outside the hut and saw a small crowd of women and children. Then the shooting began.
Moments later, the 19 villagers lay dead or dying.
”— Civilian Killings Went Unpunished - latimes.comWar crimes, how come they are the most heinous crimes of all yet go unpunished?
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Meet Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible hardcover editions, featuring a specially commissioned illustrated letter of the alphabet by type designer Jessica Hische and a series design collaboration between Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley.
Writes Elda Rotor, Associate Publisher and Editorial Director of Penguin Classics:Penguin Drop Caps is a series inspired by typography—its beauty and its power of expression. A drop cap, or an initial cap, is the first letter of a word when designed and set larger than the surrounding text. It is used to introduce a new idea, paragraph, or chapter. We may recognize such elements from books of our childhood, from sacred and historic texts, and from beautiful early editions of classic literature. Whether they appear in illuminated fifteenth-century manuscripts set by scribes or digitally displayed on Jessica Hische’s own Daily Drop Cap blog, a drop cap letter impresses upon the reader the arrival of something of which to take note, something unique and special that deserves to be savored.
For the book lover, the series is a nod to the tradition of printing and the distribution of ideas, stories, and opinions—ranging from paper to digital media. For the writer and artist, the series pays homage to the significance of composition, texture, and form. With Penguin Drop Caps, we are inspired by the timeless tradition and craft of letters and their endless capacity to communicate.As you can see above, the series debuts this fall with:
A for Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
B for Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
C for Willa Cather’s My Ántonia
D for Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations
E for George Eliot’s Middlemarch
F for Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (translation by Lydia Davis)
…with more to come!Absolute beaut. Just been Christmas listed 💝
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Tomorrow’s cover today: the bickering over islands is a serious threat to the region’s peace and prosperity.
Classic case of power destroying peace. One world 🌍
