#kin

The same is true of stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants. They are the object of a witch-hunt, by the very logic of the techno-structure. But [the extermination of proper place names] (like the extermination of trees, forests, and hidden places in which such legends live) makes the city a 'suspended symbolic order.' The habitable city is thereby annulled. Thus, as a woman from Rouen put it, no, here 'there isn't any place special, except for my own home, that's all...There isn't anything.' Nothing 'special': nothing that is marked, opened up by a memory or a story, signed by something or someone else. Only the cave of the home remains believable, still open for a certain time to legends, still full of shadows. Except for that, according to another city-dweller, there are only 'places in which one can no longer believe in anything. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#walking #life

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork. ↗

— James Beard

#cuisine #food #pork #food

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#walking

The big uncookable sections of who we are, they’re the ones I love to taste the most.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cook #cooking #eat #food #identity

I love crafting and cooking, doing all of that. ↗

— Tori Spelling

#crafting #doing #i #i love #love

If you don't understand how the world works, then everything is a mystery to you. If everything is magical and mysterious, then you really don't work on logic anymore. Then, everything is all about belief. ↗

— Joy Reidenberg

#science #science

In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still. ↗

— Criss Jami

#determination #first-impression #fool #foolish #genius

Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong. ↗

— Lewis Richmond

#satisfaction

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#best #brings #danger #give #kings

Within seconds, his hand is inside my panties. Now he can feel just how much I am enjoying this. I think I hear him laugh quietly, but I still can’t see his face. My body is alive with sensation, and he probes his fingers deep inside me. He moves in and out, creating a satisfying rhythm of his own. This time I really moan out loud and nearly collapse backwards, falling onto his body behind me. He catches me casually, and pushes me back to my feet, before continuing. ↗

— Felicity Brandon

#bdsm-sex #punishment #spanking #bdsm