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"Baby I can do that. But the other part of me says, "I'm too old for this," Yet the dream. The dream. When monsters intrude on your dream consciousness it's because you invited them."

-Paul Schrader

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
BY RICHARD WILBURThe eyes open to a cry of pulleys ( Read more... )

"Personally I try to look at our trespasses not as sins but as sufferings - that we have at our core an essential goodness, but that over time this goodness is loaded up with layers of suffering that lead ultimately to all manner of fucked-up behaviour."

Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files

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Manifold are thy shapings, Providence!
Many a hopeless matter gods arrange
What we expected never came to pass
What we did not expect the gods brought to bear
So have things gone, this whole experience through!

I love Gunsmoke. What other show would have a character suddenly start reading Tennyson ( Read more... )

“If it does not seem natural now, either art or my memory is to blame.”


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I was reading a review of Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion recently and part of the review stopped me, got me thinking ( Read more... )

Very few things better than a quiet room.

Watched two episodes of Endeavour this evening, now I think some reading in bed. It's cold tonight, and so amazingly quiet. There's a stillness it's so quiet.

Fell down a rabbit hole and found The Detection Club. I love the oath ( Read more... )