What’s the catch?

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he were sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

life: Movement. Emotion. In sports, both factors are constantly in flux, making the role of — and the challenge faced by — the photographer something of a contradiction: How to capture, freeze, distill that fluid intensity in one signature image? Over the decades, LIFE photographers embraced that contradiction, and time after time emerged with pictures that illuminated, delighted, and thrilled the magazine’s millions of readers. Pictured: In this photograph by George Silk, 14-year-old diver Kathy Flicker’s perfect 10-point entry into the waters of a pool at Princeton University’s Dillion Gym. Silk lowered the water level and set up a half-dozen flash units to get this shot. (see more — LIFE at 75 Classic Sports Shots)
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life:

Movement. Emotion. In sports, both factors are constantly in flux, making the role of — and the challenge faced by — the photographer something of a contradiction: How to capture, freeze, distill that fluid intensity in one signature image?

Over the decades, LIFE photographers embraced that contradiction, and time after time emerged with pictures that illuminated, delighted, and thrilled the magazine’s millions of readers.

Pictured: In this photograph by George Silk, 14-year-old diver Kathy Flicker’s perfect 10-point entry into the waters of a pool at Princeton University’s Dillion Gym. Silk lowered the water level and set up a half-dozen flash units to get this shot.

(see more — LIFE at 75 Classic Sports Shots)

Source: life

This is so disturbing, and so well done, it’s bloody fucking brilliant.
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This is so disturbing, and so well done, it’s bloody fucking brilliant.

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Of Hinduism and its influence on the West

I read in an Economist article that there is no word for “irony” in the Sanskrit language. Intrigued, I tweeted for help, and it arrived in the form of @Sajesh, who pointed out this essay to me, which, incidentally has been written by the person whose obituary is the first hyperlink. 

Agreed, Sanskrit is one of the most oldest languages known to man, but not having a word for something is an attribute I would have accepted in the case of other languages. But the reasons for such an eventuality are pretty clear, when you go through aforementioned (brilliant, brilliant, brilliant) essay. 

I wish I had come across this article while in school, it would have been so much fun discussing it with DP and the rest of the gang! I could sit down and read it more carefully, but there is really no time for such a pursuit. :(

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“ZOMGHOLYFUCKAWESOMERIPROARINGMACHETEWIELDINGRAPTORJESUSDANCINGTHETANGOWITHGEORGECARLIN!!”

anneyhall: Carlos Ramos: “Dr. Strangelove,” 2010. Me: Brilliance.
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anneyhall:

Carlos Ramos: “Dr. Strangelove,” 2010.

Me: Brilliance.

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