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controlledeuphoria:

Zadie Smith

Class: “Sense and Sensibility” - Weekly Seminar on Writing

Reading List:

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Catholics by Brian Moore
The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
Crash by J.G. Ballard
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel
Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader by David Lodge
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
My Loose Thread by Dennis Cooper
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Loser by Thomas Bernhard
The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Reader’s Block by David Markson
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
The Quiet American by Graham Greene

professionaltimemeddler:

Never was there a tale of more woe
than that of Juliet and her Romeo

Never was there a tale of more strife
than that of Macbeth and his stabby knife

Never was there a tale of more sad
than that of Hamlet and his spooky dad

ostolero:

it’s about time I contributed to the online discourse

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Anonymous asked: Can birds do drugs?

biologizeable:

If you mean “can birds knowingly go out and acquire illegal psychologically modifying chemicals for recreational use” I would say definitely not. However, birds can and have been observed getting totally sauced on various delicious fermented fruits.

Waxwings and robins will gorge on thawed berries until some of them are so inebriated that Environment Yukon has taken to keeping the worst off in tiny bird drunk tanks until they’re sober enough to leave. Inebriated zebra finches sing like they’re at terrible karaoke night. Drunk parrots periodically fill animal hospitals in Australia. A flock of intoxicated starlings stopped traffic in Austria after running into numerous cars. THE LIST GOES ON.

As mentioned in the video, hilarious to hear about but in reality it is causing a major problem; these “drunk” birds have a hard time avoiding head-on collisions with buildings and other man-made paraphernalia. Moral of the story: don’t drink and fly, kids. Unless you’re a bat. Because it turns out you don’t need to pass a breathalyzer test to fly with sonar.