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Design blog.
I'm not moving permanently (yet), but I set up a new blog - Eldest and Only. It's my try at a design / fashion / art blog. Come overrrr. -
When A Man Loves A Woman
When she says margarita she means daiquiri.
When she says quixotic she means mercurial.
And when she says, "I'll never speak to you again,"
she means, "Put your arms around me from behind
as I stand disconsolate at the window."
He's supposed to know that.
from When a Woman Loves a Man, David Lehman -
Franny, on wisdom
Nervously, and without any real need whatever, Franny pushed back hr hair with one hand. "I don't think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while - just once in a while - there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of ( Read more... ) -
My shoulders cave in
As an adolescent, she realises with mounting horror that they were not kidding: for her to walk alone will be a fraught activity forever. Anorexia, bulimia & exercise fixations work off & numb the frustration of the claustrophobia that accompanies the girl's grieving realisation that the wide world she had imagined, & just inherited, is shut down ( Read more... ) -
Fist
He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms. - - Herman Melville, Moby Dick
