February 2012
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“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop...”
– Katherine Mansfield
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from "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki...
May Kasahara: “Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions), they think that the world or life (or whatever) is this place where everything is (or is supposed to be) basically logical and consistent. Talking with my neighbors here often makes me think that. Like, when somethings happens, whether it’s a big event that affects the whole society...
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“Very early in my life, it was too late. At eighteen it was already too late. At...”
– First lines of The Lover, by Marguerite Duras (via elideario)
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“In the morning, the whole world had a strange new smell. It was the smell of the...”
– A. S. Byatt, Possession (via writeaboutlove-)
Feb 6th
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from 'Possession' by A. S. Byatt
“What is it my dear?”  “Ah, how can we bear it?”  “Bear what?”  “This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?”  “We can be quiet together, and pretend - since it is only the beginning - that we have all the time in the world.”  “And every day we shall have less. And then none.”  “Would you rather, therefore,...
Feb 6th
The top 10 most popular Dickens characters
amandaonwriting: Ebenezer Scrooge has been voted the most popular Charles Dickens character, according to a poll held to mark the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth. 1. Ebenezer Scrooge - A Christmas Carol 2. Miss Havisham - Great Expectations 3. Sydney Carton - A Tale Of Two Cities 4. The Artful Dodger - Oliver Twist 5. Fagin - Oliver Twist 6. Joe Gargery - Great Expectations 7. Pip...
Feb 6th
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The Highwayman
An old favourite. Not least because of the illustrations that accompanied it, in the large tome I first found it in as a kid. Lovely gypsy black locks and red ribbons for the tragic lass! I have never gotten over such exotica apoemaday: by Alfred Noyes The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of...
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January 2012
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emily dickinson to the rescue.
lindseyannebaker: At a local poetry reading tonight, one of the readers kept making reference to his “chest brain.” I don’t know what that is, but it kept making me think of Michael Dickman’s “Brain Death” or otherwise oft-mentioned brains. And then I just wanted to go read Michael Dickman.  Standing in her house today all I could think of was whether she took a shit every morning or...
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“Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you will still have your...”
– Catherynne M. Valente (The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making)
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“I’m not lost, because I haven’t any idea where to go that I might get lost on...”
– Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In a Ship of Her Own Making (via relatedworlds)
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