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Holiday Horse, Tumblr Days, and a GiraffeMy life is...

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Holiday Horse, Tumblr Days, and a Giraffe

My life is exceptionally dull right now, although it is the run up to hollybags, so there will be…

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austinkleon: Patti Smith’s advice to young artists A writer or...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:39:39 +0100

austinkleon:

Patti Smith’s advice to young artists

A writer or any artist can’t expect to be embraced by the people. I’ve done records where it seemed like no one listened to them. You write poetry books that maybe 50 people read. And you just keep doing your work because you have to, because it’s your calling.

But it’s beautiful to be embraced by the people.

Some people have said to me, “Well, don’t you think that kind of success spoils one as an artist? If you’re a punk rocker, you don’t want to have a hit record…”

And I say to them, “Fuck you!”

One does their work for the people. And the more people you can touch, the more wonderful it is. You don’t do your work and say, “I only want the cool people to read it.” You want everyone to be transported, or hopefully inspired by it.

When I was really young, William Burroughs told me, “Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work. And make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency.”

So, so good.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 09:39:22 +0100

cosmarxpolitan:

"Following your bliss is useless. People are passionate about a lot of stupid things. It’s not a..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:38:55 +0100

“Following your bliss is useless. People are passionate about a lot of stupid things. It’s not a great mantra. Meaning, I think, comes from doing a full accounting of your limitations and assets, your passions and your weaknesses, your belief system and your fears, and then rubbing up against the things that cause you to panic, like an allergy skin scratch test, and find out what your reactions are. Once you figure out how you can contribute to the greater good, once you’re able even to define that, you take that information and pour yourself into one direction. Regardless of discomfort or regrets or what-ifs. (And then doing that over and over again, until death.) That does not fit on a T-shirt. That to me is more important than bliss, which would really just lead me back into bed, maybe with a bowl of corn flakes…”

- Jessa Crispin (via austinkleon)

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Fri, 17 May 2013 09:36:51 +0100

"My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness."

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:36:24 +0100

“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”

- Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters (via violentwavesofemotion, palmofmyhands)

"… sometimes blocked in, sometimes reaching out, one moment your life is a stone in you, the next a..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:36:14 +0100

“… sometimes blocked in, sometimes reaching out,
one moment your life is a stone in you, the next a star.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Sunset” in Selected Poems, trans. Robert Bly (via proustitute)

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Fri, 17 May 2013 09:33:13 +0100

"I’d woken up early and I took a long time getting ready to exist."

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:33:01 +0100

““I’d woken up early and I took a long time getting ready to exist.””

- The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa (via delicateswans)

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Fri, 17 May 2013 09:32:51 +0100

"I guess when you’re young, you believe there will be many people whom you’ll connect with. Later in..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:32:41 +0100

“I guess when you’re young, you believe there will be many people whom you’ll connect with. Later in life you realize it only happens a few times.”

- Richard Linklater (via hellanne)

workman: biomedicalephemera: Early ether administration...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:25:32 +0100

workman:

biomedicalephemera:

Early ether administration methods

Top: Using a drip-cloth to put a woman in labor under anesthesia.
Second: Gauze-filled face-piece used in the same manner as the drip-cloth (by soaking the covering material).
Third: Automatic pressurized ether gas administration mask.
Fourth: Manual ether gas administration mask.

The early anesthesia gasses consisted of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), ether, and chloroform. Ether was the most effective in putting people under, and had the largest therapeutic index (the difference between the recommended dosage and a toxic overdose), but had significant side-effects (such as nausea and vomiting, even before consciousness was regained, resulting in aspiration), and suppressed the autonomic breathing reflex in high enough concentrations.

Today, the only one of the three original anesthetic gasses that is still in use is nitrous oxide. It’s generally used along with local anesthetic, since it is not of the best use in causing complete unconsciousness, but its action on the brain decreases discomfort whilst awake.

Images:
An American Text-Book of Obstetrics for Practitioners and Students. Edited by Richard C. Norris, 1895.
High-Grade Hospital Furniture and Appliances Catalog. Max Wocher & Son, 1905.

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