December 2011
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As the vowels and consonants of an alphabet interact symbolically to make a...
– Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet (via proustitute)
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So a river can exist inside the sea.
And the sea will have no reverie
inside...
– Elizabeth Willis, from “Cursive” (via proustitute)
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2011 is almost over. Inbox me something you've... →
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Perhaps in the world’s destruction it would be possible at last to see how it...
– The Road by Cormac McCarthy (via maryantionette)
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ALL THE TEARS
Nicabeng: awkward hand motions tilt head to the side plus slightly inquisitive expression? O_o
Keisha: HAHAHAHA
Keisha: THAT SENTENCE
Keisha: IS. LOVELY.
Nicabeng: SORRY
Keisha: NO DON'T BE
Keisha: anddd tellingly noncommital shoulder shrug with blank face that says more by not saying.
Nicabeng: sigh pat your shoulder with slightly downcast expression
Keisha: HAHAHA STORY OF MY LIFE
Nicabeng: we could be a silent film =))
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Your body that includes everything
you have done, you have had done
to you and...
– Margaret Atwood, from “Circe/Mud Poems” in Selected Poems, 1965-1975 (via proustitute)
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Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much...
– Herman Hesse (via @johannal)
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Transitive Sadness
(At NAIA) It felt like watching that scene in a movie when two characters have to part ways for a very long time, maybe even forever. This sadness was not wholly mine. What’s funny is how I am involved. I am part of this story. But her sadness was so much stronger than mine, and it emanated from her without her noticing, heady and heavy. She being much older, there was finality involved in...
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There will be something, later,
that brims full with you
and lifts up
toward...
– Paul Celan, “Es wird etwas sein,” trans. John Felstiner in The One and Only Circle (via bellswithin)
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Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing...
– Virgil Garnett Thomson (via quote-book)