Grinning Dead Thing, A Blog for the Living

This is my forum for all of the lovely, simple things in this world that make life so amazing, or strange, or wonderful, or inspiring, or breathtaking, and oh, so very worth living.

Apr 14

“The sight of the huge world puts mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other to the world’s end.” C.S. Lewis, from Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (via surrenderrdorothy)

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Feb 8

“I’ve always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was. … I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.” Former poet laureate Donald Hall on poetry. (via nprfreshair)

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theatlanticvideo:

Old, Weird Tech: Dr. Neubronner’s Patented Miniature Pigeon Camera

(via The Atlantic Tech channel)

“The mechanisms were simple. A camera with a pneumatic timing mechanism was attached to a bird with a cute little harness. Then, the bird was released, and every so often, the timer would go off, and a puff of compressed air would trigger the exposure.”

Too wonderful.

(via npr)