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I hide and wait like a naked child Under the bridge my heart goes wild I scream at a fire on the river bank I give my body to an old gas tank I dream that I have burning hair Boiled arms that claw the air The torso of an iron king And on my
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“Of the thousands of medicaments in official use, few were truly effective: among these were quinine for malaria, opium as an analgesic, colchicum for gout, digitalis to stimulate the heart, amyl nitrate to dilate the arteries in angina and, introduced in 1896, the versatile aspirin.”
― Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
― Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
“Beneath his zen-like tranquility lurks something wounded… and dangerous.”
― American Beauty: The Shooting Script
― American Beauty: The Shooting Script
“Hygge promotes a no drama lifestyle.”
― Keep Calm & Hygge: A Guide to The Danish Art of Simple & Cosy Living
― Keep Calm & Hygge: A Guide to The Danish Art of Simple & Cosy Living
“Underwater I hear the water coming to my body, I hear the sunlight penetrating the water.”
― Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
― Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves
“I felt a calmness birds can bring to people; and, quieted, I sensed here the outlines of the oldest mysteries: the nature and extent of space, the fall of light from the heavens, the pooling of time in the present, as if it were water.”
― Arctic Dreams
― Arctic Dreams
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