oh you’re a writer? how’s doing everything you can to avoid writing going?
I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest.
Ralph Ellison, interviewed in The Art of Fiction No. 8 (via theclassicsreader)
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo
I was thinking about you. Were you thinking about me too?
what do you mean i can’t attend a mysterious but prestigious boarding school in the late sixties and make friends for life whilst falling in love with a stranger and hanging around in the libraries (all set to a dark indie soundtrack)?
“My winter days are spent forgetting you.”
A narrow oak staircase shielded by a door, heavy brace beams a nice old brick floor, and a mixture of painted brick and boarding on the walls are all typical ingredients of an old cottage hallway.
English Country Style, 1986
𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚗 𝙻𝚎 𝙵𝚊𝚗𝚞, 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟽𝟸)
The greatest pleasure of life is sensation,
To feel that we exist,
Even in pain.
-Lord Byron
When C.S. Lewis wrote “but some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”