— Haruki Murakami (After Dark)
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"You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper. The fire isn't thinking 'Oh, this is Kant,' or 'Oh, this is the Yomiuri evening edition,' or 'Nice tits,' while it burns. To the fire, they're nothing but scraps of paper. It's the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories: there's no distinction--they're all just fuel."
- "darling, don't you know, we miss you when you're gone?"
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kikiam- September 29th, 18:30
seven days of sharing:
one: a song
two: a picture
three: a book/ebook/fanfic
four: a site
five: a youtube clip
six: a quoteseven: whatever tickles your fancy
Help for Typhoon Ondoy Victims in the Philippines
it doesn't exactly "tickle my fancy", but it's something i can and feel that i need to share, just about time this meme was put to good use. idk but i do hope you guys have heard about typhoon ketsana which ravaged luzon, philippines. the metro and outlying provinces were flooded, to say the least. death toll is at 240, people are still missing, and hundreds of thousands were displaced. google "ketsana" or "ondoy", i'm sure you'll find something more informative than what i just wrote.
as one of the few lucky ones, i'm trying my best to help out, but it's definitely not enough. i just thought that here's another thing i can do, maybe someone from my f-list can spare sth. there are ways to send in donations, both in cash or in kind, even from outside the philippines. we really need help. i've been refreshing news sites the whole day and things aren't improving quickly enough.
i may look like a hypocrite, because i'm not exactly going out there to physically hand relief goods out to those still stuck on their rooftops or anything (props to those people, oh my god), but i genuinely feel bad about this whole thing and this is one of my little ways to help out, so please. never have i felt a natural disaster so real and so close in my life. as one of the few lucky ones, i feel obliged to do at least this. i might be capable of doing more, but for now, i feel that this can help.
another typhoon is coming tomorrow. oh, god. >_>
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