January 2012
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“The normalization of prison rape - like eighteenth-century japery about watching...”
– Adam Gopnik, The Caging of America
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Now what should I do in this place But sit and count the chimes, And splash cold water on my face And spoil a page with rhymes?
-Dorothy Parker, from A Well-Worn Story
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P.J. Harvey - Taut (live)
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“He began to think of her, of what she was thinking and feeling. For the first...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (translated by Constance Garnett)
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You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye
-Margaret Atwood
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“I am told that he did not drink like an ordinary toper, but like a savage, with...”
– Charles Baudelaire on Edgar Allen Poe, from Edgar Poe, sa vie et ses oeuvres (Edgar Allan Poe, His Life and Works, 1852), via
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“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via growing-orbits)
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