regarding the röttgen pietà, elle emerson
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
— Joe Moran, “Why you should read this article slowly” in The Guardian
Misty Copeland
“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn’t even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn’t talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.”
Yiwei Chai, The Jacaranda Years
requiem, jill osier.
Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.
[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]
pomegranates in still life (details)
June Gehringer, “EARTH IS AN ANAGRAM FOR HEART, U FUCKING IDIOTS”
[Text ID: “I don’t want to talk about it. / I want to lie in what little grass remains / and try to fit your heart inside of mine.”]
La Nuit by Auguste Raynaud, 1887
Fucking. Wow im gonna die
Heather Havrilesky
Girl dancers in nature, postcard circa 1920
“This is also the message of classic horror: if the monster learns appropriate restraint, it becomes an angel.”
— Kirk J. Schneider, Horror and the Holy: Wisdom-Teachings of the Monster Tale
Donald Duclow, The Hungers of Hadewijch and Eckhart
— Paul Guest, from “1987.”