Bringhurst

Introduction / Samsa's Dream

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:49:00 -0400

Heavily based on Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style, Bringhurst is the perfect theme for those who love typography and want to honor their content. Purchase it today for only $9.

Now onto the dummy text: One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment.

His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. “What’s happened to me? ” he thought. It wasn’t a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame.

It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather.

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Well, there’s still some hope; once I’ve got the money together...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:53:00 -0400

Well, there’s still some hope; once I’ve got the money together to pay off my parents’ debt to him — another five or six years I suppose — that’s definitely what I’ll do. That’s when I’ll make the big change.

"Getting up early all the time, it makes you stupid. You’ve got to get enough sleep."

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:24:00 -0400

“Getting up early all the time, it makes you stupid. You’ve got to get enough sleep.”

- Gregor Samsa, Die Verwandlung

When we give up symbols and opinions, aren’t we left in the utter nothingness of being, a well-argued volume of shit?

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:58:00 -0400

If I didn’t have my parents to think about I’d have given in my notice a long time ago, I’d have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel.

He’d fall right off his desk! And it’s a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing. Well, there’s still some hope; once I’ve got the money together to pay off my parents’ debt to him — another five or six years I suppose — that’s definitely what I’ll do. That’s when I’ll make the big change. First of all though, I’ve got to get up, my train leaves at five.

One of my favorites.

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:08:00 -0400

One of my favorites.

Surveillance Theme for Tumblr

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:46:00 -0400

Surveillance Theme for Tumblr:

Another gorgeous theme by yours truly.

His boss would certainly come round with the doctor from the...

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:44:00 -0400

His boss would certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the doctor’s recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy.

Directions to Olive Garden

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:57:00 -0400

Tourist: Could you give us directions to Olive Garden?
New Yorker: No, but I could give you directions to an actual Italian restaurant.
Tourist: Okay, where is it?
New Yorker: Over there! Right across the street, on your left.
Tourist: Thanks so much!

Just to show you what another page looks like

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:37:00 -0400

Here’s another page for your enjoyment! Some dummy text:

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure.

To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it?