“Pero ¿cuándo el amor s propiamente amor? ¿Puede uno amar a quien le acompañó por una hora? ¿Por dos horas, dos meses, dos años, dos minutos? ¿Se ama a quien se conoce, justamente por eso, o es quizás al revés: conocemos para mejor desconocer, y así poder amar sin el estorbo de la realidad? ¿No es cierto que quienes más se aman son a veces quienes menos se conocen? Ni una sola de estas preguntas se plantea jamás para buscar respuesta verdadera. Ninguna la tiene, ni la tendrá, a menos que uno decida imponérsela, casi siempre de acuerdo con su más absoluta inconveniencia. Incluso sin respuesta, lanzadas al espacio estratosférico de los propios insomnios, las preguntas que apuntan hacia la probable existencia del amor suelen aparecer cuando no queda tiempo, ni voluntad, ni siquiera osadía para ponerlas en duda. Preguntarse si por casualidad se ama equivale a plantear una alternativa entre felicidad y desdicha, buena y mala fortuna, besos y bofetadas.”
— -Xavier Velasco, DIablo Guardián.
Hand formed aluminium Magic Bus
© john gilbert
Kazuki’s Photo
‘lost’
Berlin Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1980
Part 12: Die Schlange in der Seele der Schlange
Barbara Sukowa
For a minute, just for a minute, you made it feel like home. Maren and Lee in Bones and All (2022)
Human eyes can see only a small portion of the range of radiation given off by the objects around us. We call this wide array of radiation the electromagnetic spectrum, and the part we can see visible light.
In the first image, researchers revisited one of Hubble Space Telescope’s most popular sights: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. Here, the pillars are seen in infrared light, which pierces through obscuring dust and gas and unveil a more unfamiliar — but just as amazing — view of the pillars. The entire frame is peppered with bright stars and baby stars are revealed being formed within the pillars themselves. The image on the bottom is the pillars in visible light.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team
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— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, from Aristotle And Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (via lunamonchtuna)
Dear Anne, Since we are parting ways, perhaps forever, I feel I must unburden my heart. You are the fond object of my affection and my desire, you and you alone are the keeper of the key to my heart. Please, don’t be alarmed, I don’t expect your favor, but I can’t in good conscience not reveal myself. I’m not engaged, nor will I be, unless it’s to you Anne, my Anne with an E. It always has been and always will be you.
With love, Gilbert.
P. S. Thanks for the pen. Good luck at Queens.
That’s how we met. A bookshop in Paris. A woman introduces herself as Gertrude and tells me I do not want to purchase the book I’m perusing, as it’s impossibly bleak and, in the end, the protagonist is murdered! I spent my next decades hiding what I was reading, as she couldn’t help but spoil the ending of every novel or night at the theatre.