October 2010
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At first I was like:
And then he was like:
So then I was like:
Anonymous asked: Why are you so awesome?
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You know what troubles me? Nursery rhymes.
Seriously. This stuff is taught to kids.
- Humpty Dumpty: an egg that fell off a wall and who thence, even with the combined effort of “all the king’s horses and all the kings men”, could not be “put back together again”. Dispiriting at first, it only gets better when you learn that, really, Humpty Dumpty was not a lovable egg at all - but a cold, soulless cannon...
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After a day at the races in England, a friend told Mark Twain, “I wish you’d buy me a ticket back to London. I’m broke.”
Twain told him he couldn’t afford two tickets but proposed that his friend sneak aboard the train and hide under Twain’s seat. Then he bought two tickets as usual.
When the train had got under way, the inspector appeared to collect Twain’s ticket. When Twain gave him two, he...
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Teacups
yama-bato:
A student asked Suzuki Roshi why the Japanese make their teacups so thin and delicate that they break easily. “It’s not that they’re too delicate,” he answered, “but that you don’t know how to handle them. You must adjust yourself to the environment, and not vice versa.”
From: “To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki: Stories of a Zen Teacher Told...
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