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oldhollywood: Frances Farmer (via getty) No one ever came to me...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:29:14 -0400

Frances Farmer (via getty)

No one ever came to me and said, “You’re a fool. There isn’t such a thing as God. Somebody has been stuffing you.” It wasn’t a murder. I think God just died of old age. And when I realized that he wasn’t any more, it didn’t shock me. It seemed natural and right.

Maybe it was because I was never properly impressed with a religion. I went to Sunday school and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn’t believe them. The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true

…I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was… nothingness.

-excerpt from “God Dies”, the controversial high school essay written by Frances Farmer in 1931. The full essay can be read here.

“It was pretty sad, because for the first time I found how stupid people could be. It sort of made me feel alone in the world. The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.”

-Farmer, on reaction to her essay “God Dies”

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I love Eve’s face in the background here.

Boy, Oh, Boy - Maureen Dowd

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:01:05 -0400

Boy, Oh, Boy - Maureen Dowd: ” “A good many people in South Carolina really reject the...

pile: Quite a view last night

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:20:32 -0400

pile:

Quite a view last night

"Barack Obama is the president now. Regardless of what you think of him as a politician or a man, he..."

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:31:50 -0400

“Barack Obama is the president now. Regardless of what you think of him as a politician or a...

“He recognized that the struggle between low brutish beings and what he called “an almost...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:55:29 -0400

“He recognized that the struggle between low brutish beings and what he called “an almost...

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:41:54 -0400

charlsie: For my senior honors thesis, I am going to look at American fiction for girls. My...

For the last 14 weeks Marisa Meltzer's serial novel "Managed Expectations" has unspooled itself on The Awl each Friday. If you haven't read it yet, now's your chance to get the whole thing in one go. Thanks, Marisa! I'm enormously proud that we were able to host this.

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:57:48 -0400

For the last 14 weeks Marisa Meltzer's serial novel "Managed Expectations" has unspooled itself on...

Abolish the Death Penalty

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:07:42 -0400

squashed: Two weeks ago, I wrote, Scalia and Thomas think it is okay to execute an innocent...

Republicans, please stop lying.

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:55:09 -0400

squashed: People are confused enough already. And now Sen. Michael Enzi, R-Wyoming is saying,...

"Christians who believe in the sanctity of life ought to be concerned about any health care system..."

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:40:43 -0400

“Christians who believe in the sanctity of life ought to be concerned about any health care...

Hero's Leap Of Faith

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:31:46 -0400

Hero's Leap Of Faith: My friend Anilsa’s boyfriend, an FDNY fireman, rescued a man who fainted...

Kofererhof Alto Adige Valle Isarco Kerner (2007)

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:48:24 -0400

Kofererhof Alto Adige Valle Isarco Kerner (2007) : Delicious wine from Northern Italy, recommended...

txtsfrmlstnght: (845): First thing I heard on the radio when I got in the car: “humans and dinosaurs...

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:10:17 -0400

txtsfrmlstnght: (845): First thing I heard on the radio when I got in the car: “humans and dinosaurs...

On Those "Entitled" Twenty-Somethings

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:27:46 -0400

squashed: Apparently people in their 20s are a bunch of entitled whiners. I also hear we’re afraid...

Required reading.

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:42:20 -0400

Required reading.: (via alexbalk)

There are people who like The Catcher in the Rye who don’t like Adrian Mole and I just...

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:31:15 -0400

There are people who like The Catcher in the Rye who don’t like Adrian Mole and I just...

oldhollywood: Stills from Alice in Wonderland (1903, dir. Cecil...

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:50:21 -0400

oldhollywood:

Stills from Alice in Wonderland (1903, dir. Cecil Hepworth, starring May Clark), the first filmed version of Lewis Carroll’s tale. When it was first released in 1903, it was a then astonishing 12 minutes long. Unfortunately, the film was not well preserved and only about 8 minutes of it remain (somewhat) intact.

The film can be seen here.

Ooo la la, my name is mentioned in the New Yorker

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:24:26 -0400

thefamouschronicles: A quick mention of Babes in Toyland here. Scroll down to the “Ice Factory...

gatsbylives: booklover: tweexcore: Florentijn Hofman,...

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:20:43 -0400

gatsbylives:

booklover:

tweexcore:

Florentijn Hofman, brilliant.

Trojan rabbit?

For Dave.