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Be prepared to see in the times to come some exercise in blondeness.

( Naked )

( Music μουσικός from Μοῦσα muse. )

I have two copies of this book back home, the first one I read has pages falling out, cringed, yellowed, spotted with tea and noted in pencil...could not take it around anymore!

• They danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ( Read more... )

Back in the days when I lived in a musicians commune in Wales my boyfriend used to wake us up to some noise-rock vinyl in the morning (around 12pm) and I would complain quite vigorously of course about the abrupt awakening. Today I discovered that the song was Wail by The Jon Spencer Blues Exploin, a band that years later I enjoyed very much and ( Read more... )

I was introduced to Walt Whitman by my first girl crush in high school, we used to sneak into her room at the convent school, reading poetry and talking about what we were not taught in class about the great Latin and Greek characters we were reading about. Our favourite character was Alcibiades, Athenian politician and military commander, who was ( Read more... )

I miss my books, with their yellowed pages, ears, fiercely underlined lines and handwritten notes, their smell of dust and old memories. The books that so much inspired me and filled me with outrage, rage, love, hope and truth. They are so many, boxed away in a basement far away, I can't remember all of them but I hope that their teachings are ( Read more... )

« Οἱ μὲν ἰππήων στρότον οἰ δὲ πέσδων
οἰ δὲ νάων φαῖσ' ἐπ[ὶ] γᾶν μέλαι[ν]αν
ἔ]μμεναι κάλλιστον, ἔγω δὲ κῆν' ὄττω τις ἔραται. »

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(frag. 16, incipit)

It has been a strange week, first the tramp at the bus station taking care that I did not get stressed out and got on the right bus, then the other derelict talking to me and after a while giving me a huge smile saying "you are such a lovely girl!", and it wasn't till tonight's battered weirdo at the bus station opened the doors for me that I ( Read more... )