I just wanted to let you know how much seeing you meant to the both of us, Alice and I. You did a lot for Alice's peace of mind. She hasn't had a lot of people to lean on, what with Daria's pregnancy being such that it is, even in the wake of Tiana's suicide. Alice was having a lot of trouble eating, sleeping, studying... she seems to be doing ( Read more... )

"Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualised world endeavouring to interpret the wars and solitudes of the flesh."

- Allen Ginsberg, Journals mid-fifties 1954 - 1958.

"The truth is that the law of the survival of the fittest operates in the world of letters even as it does in that of organic life, though not with the same infallibility; for in the former it is subject to the disturbing influence of human judgement."

- R. Austin Freeman, introduction to Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho

Dark power, with shuddering meek submitted thought,
Be mine, to read the visions old,
Which thy awakening bards have told.

- William Collins, Ode to Fear

As some of you will know, Alice had a bit of a rough time of it a little while ago, so we took off on a jaunt around the continent to get back on our feet. We have since returned, and I now will illuminate you on some of the goings-on of said journey.

( Europe on a budget )

Alice has had a pretty rough time lately. If any of you could possibly come to visit her, especially Neil, it would be really appreciated.

Thank you.

Examine, analyse everything that is natural. All the actions and desires of the purely natural man; you will find nothing but the horrible. Everything that is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and thought. Crime, for which the human animal acquires a taste in his mother's womb, is of natural origin.

- Charles Baudelaire

Okay, this is now officially creepy (and I ought to know). Has anybody actually figured out what's going on with Gloria's journal yet?

3. "You'll get to like it eventually."

2. "So, who's for tentacles?"

1. "Oops..."

Fare thee well, London College. You have served your purpose, and I wish you years more felicitous than this just passed.

As to my future, I look to the reaches beyond exams with anticipation.