“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

Depending on where you like to click within search results, that quote is either from Sylvia Plath or Oscar Wilde. What’s really spectacular about this particular bit of muddled attribution is the subtle difference in the sentiment that one gets from the quote depending on the person it is being attributed to.

Online, information degrades in the most interesting ways.

2 years ago