ni·hil·i·ty /na?’h?l?ti, ni-/ [nahy-hil-i-tee, nee-] - noun nothingness; nonexistence. [French nihilité, from Old French, from Medieval Latin nihilitas, from Latin nihil, nothing; see nihilism.]Tumblr (3.0; @nihility)http://nihility.tumblr.com/<p><img src="http://www.prakope.com/tumblr/colonel.jpg" align="left" height="240" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="155"/>“Life is the best thing that’s ever been invented.”</p> <p>Gabriel García Márquez, “No One Writes to the Colonel”, <i>No One Writes to the Colonel</i>, pg 39</p>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/65470540http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/65470540Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:46:00 -0500<p><a href="http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/ddautta" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.prakope.com/tumblr/ddautta.jpg"/><br/>Ddautta</a></p> <p>Because some things on the internet should not be forgotten. Plus, it’s just fantastic animation.</p> <p>Via <a href="http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/" target="_blank">Albino Blacksheep</a></p>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/65459156http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/65459156Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:23:00 -0500<img src="http://20.media.tumblr.com/GV0CgGDdHhjfvecrIbY5BP90o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Excite Bike. This is all manner of awesome.</p> <p>Found via <a target="_blank" href="http://ffffound.com/image/a461c06a76688b853344acf29e33ef0ac12d2422">FFFFOUND!</a></p>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/65067423http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/65067423Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:46:00 -0500<p><img src="http://www.prakope.com/tumblr/moviegoer.jpg" align="right" height="240" width="155"/></p> <p>“Now in the thirty-first year of my dark pilgrimage on this earth and knowing less than I ever knew before, having learned only to recognize merde when I see it, having inherited no more from my father than a good nose for merde, for every species of shit that flies - my only talent - smelling merde from every quarter, living in fact in the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle, and one hundred percent of people are humanists and ninety-eight percent believe in God, and men are dead, dead, dead; and the malaise has settled like a fall-out and what people really fear is not that the bomb will fall but that the bomb will not fall…”</p> <p>Walker Percy, <i>The Moviegoer</i>, pg 228</p>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/64718069http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/64718069Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:51:00 -0500<p><img alt="The Last Night of the Earth Poems - Charles Bukowski" src="http://www.prakope.com/tumblr/lastnight.jpg" align="left" height="240" width="155"/>“much about dying is getting ready.”</p> <p>Charles Bukowsk, <i>Mugged</i>, <i>The Last Night of the Earth Poems</i>, pg. 141</p>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/64203539http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/64203539Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:07:00 -0500<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.prakope.com/tumblr/neuron-galaxy.jpg"><img width="400" src="http://www.prakope.com/tumblr/neuron-galaxy.jpg"/></a></p> <p>Fuck. I think I need some pot to get my mind around this one.</p> <p>Via <a href="http://ffffound.com/image/1e1557c3827a52ef3d04cdc07f6dd9b4a5c8aeb8" target="_blank">ffffound.com</a> Original <a href="http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/neuron-galaxy.jpg" target="_blank">here</a></p>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/64009173http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/64009173Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:25:25 -0500<p><img alt="Invitation to a Beheading" src="http://www.prakope.com/tumblr/invitation.jpg" align="right" height="240" width="155"/>” … what is a recollection, if not the soul of an impression?”</p> <p>Vladimir Nabakov, <i>Invitation to a Beheading</i>, pg. 181</p>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63811804http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63811804Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:01:00 -0500books I've read<embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtvmusic.com:100416" width="400" height="338" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="dist=http://www.mtvmusic.com" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="never"></embed><br/><br/><p>God’s Away on Business - Tom Waits</p>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63603732http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63603732Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:34:00 -0500<p><img src="http://www.prakope.com/tumblr/PAR157425.jpg" alt="Looking In" width="400"/></p> <p>This is what I feel like some days. On the outside, watching everyone else having fun.</p> <p>Via <a target="_blank" href="http://todayspictures.slate.com/20081205/">Slate</a></p>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63231825http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63231825Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:52:00 -0500<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/GV0CgGDdHh3sf5k0YZqIP5eio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63116774http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63116774Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:53:54 -0500<p>I dreamt about her again last night. I dream about her often. The further I get from her, the more she seems like only a dream. A beautiful, mad dream playing out in the myst of my subconscious.</p>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63102276http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63102276Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:11:14 -0500<img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/GV0CgGDdHh3m7npwsXTXikwWo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63091766http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63091766Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:00:07 -0500<p><img alt="Catch 22" src="http://www.prakope.com/tumblr/catch22.jpg" align="left" height="240" width="155"/></p> <p>“That’s the kind of God you people talk about - a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncoth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation?”<br/><br/>Joseph Heller, <i>Catch-22</i>, pg. 189</p>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63042664http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/63042664Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:17:00 -0500<embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtvmusic.com:10096" width="400" height="338" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="dist=http://www.mtvmusic.com" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="never"></embed><br/><br/>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/62912036http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/62912036Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:52:08 -0500“Each word seemed to me an unnecessary stain on silence of nothingness.”<br/><br/> - <em><a target="_blank" href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/39831.html"><b>Samuel Beckett</b></a><br/><i>Irish author, dramatist, & novelist in France (1906 - 1989)</i></em>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/62840675http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/62840675Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:54:35 -0500<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/GV0CgGDdHh1tipqg62lIZRnNo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/62839861http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/62839861Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:49:07 -0500<p>ni·hil·i·ty /na?’h?l?ti, ni-/ [nahy-hil-i-tee, nee-] <br/><b>- noun</b><br/>nothingness; nonexistence. <br/><br/>[French nihilité, from Old French, from Medieval Latin nihilitas, from Latin nihil, nothing; see <a target="_blank" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nihilism"><b>nihilism</b></a>.]</p>http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/62838529http://nihility.tumblr.com/post/62838529Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:38:38 -0500