September 2010
it
“it is that quality possessed by some, which draws all others with its magnetic force. with it you win all men if you are a woman - and all women if you are a man. it can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction. it is self-confidence and indifference as to whether you are pleasing or not, and something in you that gives you the impression that you are not at all cold....
it's decorative gourd season, motherfuckers. →
campfires make people 92% more honest. i’m not sure why, but it’s true. if i was...
– jonathan acuf
harvest chill
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. wistful foreboding at the first signs of autumn, as yellow leaves appear scattered on the ground like Post-Its leading you on a treasure hunt toward the realization that your slow slide into oblivion has already begun, steadily gathering speed on your way down to the end of the ride while the next generation waits at the top for their turn, a sobering reminder that...
the waste land; the burial of the dead
pinpricks:
You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.’ —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od’ und leer das Meer.
T.S. Eliot
Bleak and empty, the sea.
our kiss was niticlimactic. it wasn’t that the kiss was bad, but it was...
– nicole krauss, great house
well, after i’ve been to university, i’m going to be french, and i’m going to...
– an education