tumblr trying to shorten posts is so funny it’s like the well-meaning gentleman in a period drama trying to offer a lady his hand to step over an obstacle and she just plows through it. like good sir I’ve never once filtered the “long post” tag in my life, I’ve handled every “don’t you love the color of the sky” ripoff you can imagine. I’m battle hardened. step aside.
me learning english at 12: You lethargic, imprudent imbecile, how exactly have you managed to speak ONE language in your entire life, and never learned such simple rules as your/you’re and who/whom? The english language has the grammatical complexity of a shovel, and I’ve mastered it better than you!
me trying to learn a new language at 27: I put enough word in sentence in an order, hope it make sense. My heart good but my brain small. Thank you and have mercy.
Y'all ever think about how there are just a whole bunch of sets of stairs in the middle of forests that lead nowhere
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What?
“On just about every case where we’re really far into the wilderness, I’m talking 30 or 40 miles, at some point we’ll find a staircase in the middle of the woods. It’s almost like if you took the stairs in your house, cut them out, and put them in the forest. I asked about it the first time I saw some, and the other officer just told me not to worry about it, that it was normal. Everyone I asked said the same thing. I wanted to go check them out, but I was told, very emphatically, that I should never go near any of them.” (source)
“In the case of Kafka, we know very little. We only know that he was very dissatisfied with his own work. Of course, when he told his friend Max Brod that he wanted his manuscripts to be burned, as Virgil did, I suppose he knew that his friend wouldn’t do that. If a man wants to destroy his own work, he throws it into a fire, and there it goes. When he tells a close friend of his, ‘I want all the manuscripts to be destroyed,’ he knows that the friend will never do that, and the friend knows that he knows and that he knows that the other knows that he knows and so on and so forth.”
