December 2009
“Chlorpromazine effectively treats schizophrenia, severe mania in people with...”
November 2009
Words Hardest to Translate
Words hardest to translate (Today Translations, June 2004) was a list of words reported as being the world’s most difficult words to translate. The British company surveyed 1,000 linguists to create the list. According to Jurga Zilinskiene, head of Today Translations, the difficulty in translating the words identified by the survey is not finding the meaning of these words, but conveying...
“Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both...”
– The Day of the Locust, Nathaniel West
‘It’s All Over Now’- Rolling...
“Brant security guard charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly shoving...”
– from Stephanie Seymour’s divorce papers
“our wine guy just described a wine from the loire as ‘like a beautiful...”
– hidden kitchen
“she was a lot of fun until she wasn’t.”
“Teacups rattle in their saucers as they are suspended by my wrists, the window...”
– tea
The very first time I really loved sex was the very first time I was happy to be a girl.
And also, found out there were two hearts in a human body.
I stared down at my smooth stomach, its separate pounding crawling out my bellybutton like a bulldozer. I thought perhaps I was a cow, but with multiple hearts instead of stomachs.
(What a pleasure to have a dual dwelling of mysterious...
