Friday, January 9, 2015
7 Fictional Lands That Should Have Google Maps
Posted by Unknown on Friday, January 09, 2015
Now walk for months and months until you get to Mordor.
Narnia, The Chronicles of Narnia
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Neverland, Peter Pan
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Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings
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The Whoniverse, Doctor Who
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10 Animals Meditating On Their Favorite Cormac McCarthy Quotes
Posted by Unknown on Friday, January 09, 2015
These desert creatures think Cormac McCarthy might be their spirit animal.
Child of God changed this adorable burro's life.
"Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath."
Fernando López / Creative Commons / Via Flickr: ferlomu
When this coyote read The Crossing, she thought, "Someone really understands me."
"We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless."
David Grimes / Creative Commons / Via Flickr: grimeshome
All the Pretty Horses helped this Mojave rattlesnake through a painful breakup.
"He thought the world's heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world's pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower."
Josh Hardison / Creative Commons / Via Flickr: 27495396@N07
This curmudgeonly grasshopper mouse re-reads Suttree every couple of years.
"How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it."
How Should You Write These Contentious Nightmare Words?
Posted by Unknown on Friday, January 09, 2015
Seat belts and seahorses and cell phones have divided the BuzzFeed copy desk. We need you to help us decide how they should be written.
Road Traffic Signs / Creative Commons / Via Flickr: smartsignbrooklyn
A recent update to the Associated Press Stylebook, the so-called "journalist's bible," unearthed a previously unknown fissure in the BuzzFeed copy desk: the word "seat belt." According to AP, it's "seat belt, two words."
But a few of our editors felt otherwise: There were "very strong feelings" against the two-word variation, as well as talk of moving to BuzzFeed's London office, where British English reigns supreme and all bets on standard American English are off. So we're kicking it out to you, our readers, to resolve our issues, once and for all.
One stipulation for all of you nitpicking grammarians: Let's consider each of these options nouns — no verbs or adjectives. So, that said, how should we style these headache-inducing words?
What Are The Creepiest Sentences From Literature?
Posted by Unknown on Friday, January 09, 2015
Words working together to scare you.
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Such as...
-Orwell, 1984
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