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Don't mind me. Just obsessed with the power of names.
"Cities and Names 3," from Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino ( Read more... ) -
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On Saturday night I stayed up until 3:30am so I could finally finish One Hundred Years of Solitude. That book is insane. SO MUCH happens. But because so much happens, and so quickly, it felt very dense to me, and I could only take about a chapter at a time. The imagination in that story is impressive, the characterization is fantastic, and the ( Read more... ) -
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Yesterday I watched Tokyo Sonata, a Japanese movie about the secret lives people lead-- or the rash decisions they make-- out of the desperate wish to have a life other than the one they have been given.
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My own emotional instability is driving me nuts today. I just typed a long entry and then deleted it because I decided I didn't want anyone to see those thoughts. I've been like this all day and I can't even pinpoint why, exactly ( Read more... ) -
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This is almost the end of my second week at my new part-time job.
Already it's hands-down my favorite job that I've ever had. And it feels so surreal to even have a job, because I've been so long without one. I wasn't even nervous at the interview because I didn't really believe that I would be hired. It's made me even stricter about getting my ( Read more... ) -
doubt comes in with tricky fingers
the devil take this Orpheus
and his belladonna kiss
beautiful. poisonous.
...dangerous, this jack of hearts
with his kiss, the riot starts
I've been obsessed with Anais Mitchell's Hadestown today. The myth of Orpheus has always been one of my favorites, and this reinterpretation is so vivid. In a time of 30's-era-type economic depression, ( Read more... )