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Causa. I join these words for four people, Some others may overhear them, world, I am sorry for you, You do not know these four people. Ezra Pound / "My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed." Ludwig Wittgenstein / "On a deux vies, et la deuxième commence quand on se rend compte qu’on n’en a qu’une" Confucius / "My works were designed to amuse, annoy, bewilder, mystify and inspire reflection." Man Ray / «Todas las teorías del dadaísmo y del surrealismo son monótonamente repetidas. El “ready-made” inunda el globo. Cuando todo sea “ready-made” no habrá que tocar nada» Salvador Dalí, 1932 / "existir apenas levemente / como el sol de tarde que dibuja / sombras de las hojas de los plátanos / en la pared que da al oeste." Beatriz Vignoli / "Anything can happen. Especially nothing." Michel Houellebecq
Heterosexual” was actually coined in a letter at the same time as the word “homosexual,” [in the mid-19th century], by an Austro-Hungarian journalist named Károly Mária Kertbeny. He created these words as part of his response to a piece of Prussian legislation that made same-sex erotic behavior illegal, even in cases where the identical act performed by a man and a woman would be considered legal. And he was one of a couple of people who did a lot of writing and campaigning and pamphleteering to try to change legal opinion on that matter. He coined the words “heterosexual” and “homosexual” in a really very clever bid to try to equalize same-sex and different-sex…to suggest that there are these two categories… were not part of a hierarchy, that they were just two different flavors of the same thing.
— How “heterosexual” got its start – basically, as protest against discriminatory legislature on same-sex love. (via curiositycounts)

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