No Day Like Today
Picaresque (adj.) Involving clever rogues, rascals, or adventurers
Jennifer / 23 / Chicago / Archive / Ask
ThemeJennifer / 23 / Chicago / Archive / Ask
Accidentally ventured too close to campus. #uchicago (at The University of Chicago)
"Hemingway explained. He said, when you matriculate at the University of Chicago you write down just what accent you will have and they give it to you when you graduate. You can have a sixteenth century or modern, whatever you like."
— Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (via uchicagohipsters)
(Source: gutenberg.net.au, via whitegirlblog)
(Source: glutenfreegluten, via uchicagoadmissions)
Near Eckhart.
Arabic on Flickr.
"I will not be bound. Not ever again. I have spent much of my life standing against the binding of women. I will not be told that I should be free to go home early to cook dinner if that same “freedom” is not available for all. And I will not stand silently by when a 14-year-old girl is targeted with a bullet for having demanded an education. Yes, these things are all connected."
—
Rev. Elizabeth Davenport, Dean of Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago
(For the record - I am a big, fat atheist, but if you are on the UChicago campus, do yourself a favor and find an opportunity to meet Elizabeth Davenport. She is kind, funny, welcoming to all students, and has an infectious enthusiasm for unexpected things, e.g. Le Vorris and Vox Circus)
What you see when you lie down on the quad. Beautiful.
(lie on Flickr)
(Source: ffreeandspirited)
"The life of the mind, he thinks to himself: is that what we have dedicated ourselves to, I and these other lonely wanderers in the bowels of the British Museum? Will there be a reward for us one day? Will our solitariness lift, or is the life of the mind its own reward?"
— J.M. Coetzee, Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II
