December 2010
milessmiles:
Captain Beefheart and His Magic...
After the fire brigades rescued the London Natural History Museum from German incendiaries, Albizia silk-tree seeds bloomed on their herbarium sheets, liberated from two hundred years of dormancy by the precise combination of flame and water.
Daniel Mason, City of seeds
“One of the things I love most about learning another language is watching it...”
– http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012711.html#500492 (via mirumir)
trixietreats:
The Black Heart Procession ~...
Nicaragua’s capital, Managua, is such a place. Only the main roads have names. Any other destination gives real meaning to the Spanish word for address, ‘dirección’ – it really is a set of directions for getting there.
All addresses start from a commonly recognizable landmark – a government building, a statue, a major roundabout. You start with that, then give the vertical displacement followed...
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