me lately
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I could not love it. But I could examine it to see what it was that all the world said was lovable.
Toni Morrison, excerpt from The Bluest Eye
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Source: Lesbianism - by 大類信
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Source: On Our Backs Guide To Lesbian Sex, edited by Diana Cage
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"I myself am a researcher by inclination. I feel the entire thirst for cognition and the eager restlessness to proceed further in it, as well as the satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed this alone could constitute the honor of humankind, and I despised the rabble who knows nothing. Rousseau has set me right. This blinding prejudice vanishes, I learn to honor human beings, and I would feel by far less useful than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart a value to all others in order to establish the rights of humanity."
Kant, c.1765
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Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red
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Panel 3. Psyche Discovers that Her Mysterious Lover is Eros, 1908, Maurice Denis
Medium: oil,canvas
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the only reason why ten year old girls are destroying stupidly overpriced products at sephora to make “skincare smoothies” is because they aren’t being given access to a yard with a variety of mud, sticks, rocks, puddles, and old ceramic planters to make potions in. the children yearn for the apothecary
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fragile structure of old wallpapers
Bridesmaids at a wedding in Cairo, Egypt, 1987.
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The immersive ugliness of the built environment in the USA is entropy made visible. It indicates not simple carelessness but a vivid drive toward destruction, decay and death: the stage-set of a literal “death trip,” of a society determined to commit suicide. Far from being a mere matter of aesthetics, suburbia represents a compound economic catastrophe, ecological debacle, political nightmare, and spiritual crisis — for a nation of people conditioned to spend their lives in places not worth caring about.”
― James Howard Kunstler,
The Geography of Nowhere
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“a community without romance risks being brutish and crass, superficial and brittle, cruel and even muderous. . . i don’t mean just romantic romance. i don’t just mean erotic romance. . . i mean the romance that allows us to soften our voices when we see each other.”
maya angelou, 1998
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