Jacobyverger

One day......

Opera House, Paris, France

photo via gaynell

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate, who passed away on April 17, 2014 at the age of 87.

Here is his NY TImes obituary,

(via obitoftheday)

Modeled in the same composition as the famous dancing faun, this sculpture is made to be a juggler in a particularly crucial moment of an acrobatic trick.

The artist may also have had the Gemran word kunststückemachen in mind, which means both to juggle, and more literally, to make a work of art.

A play on words to describe this playful bronze.

Juggling Man, about 1610-1615, Adriaen de Vries. J. Paul Getty Museum.

I barf because I care

Love him xxx

"Correct me if I'm wrong Lisa, and we both know that I'm not, isn't that your 3rd piece of pie?" - The Most Judgemental Cat in the World

FILMING LOCATIONS OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)           · Groombridge Place (Groombridge) — Longbourn           · Chatsworth House (Bakewell) — Pemberley           · Basildon Park (Berkshire) — Netherfield Park           · Burghley House (Stamford) — Rosings Park           · Temple of Apollo (Stourton) — [redacted]

Edgar Allan Pooh.

"a bird in the hand is better than a thousand birds flying." - proverbs of ahikar 

photos by konsta punkka. (see also previous bird posts)

you know how mathematicians have the journal of recreational mathematics, right? where they publish stuff like, ‘oh i found this cool property of this one seemingly boring number’, or, ‘this is literally nonsense but it sounds ~scientific~’ and it’s all great fun to read?

well

behold, the journal of recreational linguistics

with such delightful papers as ‘tennis puns’, ‘animals in different languages’, and ‘gifts from a homonymous benefactor’

excuse me while i go read all 50 volumes in one sitting