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12 Jun 09
How to talk to girls at parties (Neil Gaiman) « Update or Die
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Understand me, all the girls at that party, in the twilight, were lovely; they all had perfect faces but, more important than that, they had whatever strangeness of proportion, of oddness or humanity it is that makes a beauty something more than a shop window dummy.
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“You’re a poem?” I repeated.
She chewed her lower lip. “If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose world was swallowed by the sea.
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07 Mar 09
Ruby Pseudo Wants a Word
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If you had to explain what you do by filling a shoe box, what would we find?A small empty ziploc bag, a book of short stories, a book of long stories, chicken feathers, Cocorosie CD, and a painting of a girl who looks suspiciously like me.
Madeleine Bunting: Eat, drink and be miserable: the true cost of our addiction to shopping | Comment is free | The Guardian
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We have a political system built on economic growth as measured by gross domestic product, and that is driven by ever-rising consumer spending. Economic growth is needed to service public debt and pay for the welfare state. If people stopped shopping, the economy would ultimately collapse. No wonder, then, that one of the politicians' tasks after a terrorist outrage is to reassure the public and urge them to keep shopping (as both George Bush and Ken Livingstone did). Advertising and marketing, huge sectors of the economy, are entirely devoted to ensuring that we keep shopping and that our children follow in our footsteps.
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a graph used by the US psychologist Tim Kasser at a Whitehall seminar last week. One line, representing personal income, has soared over the past 40 years; the other line marks those who describe themselves as "very happy", and has remained the same. The gap between the two yawns ever wider.
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