«Самое древнее и самое сильное чувство, ощущаемое человеческим существом, — страх. А самая могучая форма страха — это страх перед неведомым».
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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Хотелось бы все изменить,
Но время уже не вернешь.
Ты продолжаешь гнить,
Делая вид, что живешь.
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Кровью невинных несытая, шайка убийц нечестивых
Долго лелеяла здесь злое безумье свое.
Ныне разрушен застенок, родина ныне свободна;
В логово лютых смертей жизнь и спасенье пришли
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Если во всем облом, сдавайся и иди в библиотеку
Стивен Кинг
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The Coffee <3
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You prance through the swinging doors, activating the cheerful jingle of welcoming bells. The familiar old lady behind the counter smiles her warm smile; you’ve seen it countless times before.
“Bienvenuto di nuovo, mio meraviglioso!” she chimes. “You are looking lovelier than ever, darling!”
You’ve lost five pounds this week, and counting. You know you’re looking lovelier than ever, you don’t need anyone to tell you. You’ve persevered these last few days and have had the control. You may not be at your ultimate goal weight quite yet, but the action of being as strong as you’ve been recently is almost enough to feel just as euphoric.
“Hullo, good morning!” you greet the lady kindly, strutting over with confidence. Your little legs feel so great, it’s hard to even walk without feeling amazing. You’ve accomplished so much in so little time, you’re sure that everyone you know is astonished, just as well. You pop yourself up and onto one of the chic stools. You can’t help but smile, knowing that you’re just as chic. You look breathtaking.
“The usual, honey?” the sweet manager calls to you from over her shoulder.
You nod politely. “Of course! Thank you!”
She sets a warm vintage mug of black coffee down in front of you. It’s cute and relatively small, but compared to your dainty, elegant tiny fingers it looks huge and plentiful.
As you reach into your bag to pay, she stops you. “No, no, that isn’t necessary, darling. It’s on the house! This order is as simple as they come!” You insist, but it’s no use. This woman is passionate, and for that, you love her to death.
As you sip your coffee in generous gulps, you remember how you used to be unable to stand the bitter taste. Now it tastes like power and heaven, and nothing could make you more satisfied and proud.
And then, you do something. Something you hadn’t done in a long time, something you forgot you were even capable of doing. The moment you lick your lips from the fantastic taste of rich perfection and energy, you do it.
You smile.
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When a theory suddenly comes to your head:
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Me: i love books! I love them so much! I am such a bookworm!
Friend: cool! How many did you read this year?
Me: OK, so here’s the thing
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our cinemagraphs on instagram: @kitchenghosts
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Books mentioned in An Unnecessary Woman
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary Woman, a novel about a book-obsessed 72-year-old woman who only leaves her book-laden apartment when she has to. What are some of your favorites here?
1. Austerlitz (2001) by W G Sebald
2. The Emigrants (1992) by W G Sebald
3. 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño
4. The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño
5. A Heart So White (1992) by Javier Marias
6. Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (1994) by Javier Marias
7. Your Face Tomorrow Trilogy (2002-2007) by Javier Marias
8. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens
9. Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino
10. Cinnamon Shops (1934) by Bruno Schulz
11. The Conformist (1951) by Alberto Moravia
12. Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
13. The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) by Mohsin Hamid
14. The Shipping News (1993) by Annie Proulx
15. The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann
16. 100 Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
17. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984) by Jose Saramago
18. Murphy (1938) by Samuel Beckett
19. Waiting for Godot (1952) by Samuel Beckett
20. Death of a Travelling Salesman (1936) by Eudora Welty
21. Giovanni’s Room (1956) by James Baldwin
22. Corydon (1924) by Andre Gide
23. Sepharad (2001) by Antonio Muñoz Molina
24. Sophie’s Choice (1979) by William Styron
25. Nightwood (1936) by Djuna Barnes
26. The Leopard (1957) by Guiseppe Lampedusa
27. Kaddish for an Unborn Child (1990) by Imre Kertész
28. Fatelessness (1975) by Imre Kertész
29. Crime & Punishment ((1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
30. The Brothers Karamozov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
31. Madame Bovary (1856) by Gustave Flaubert
32. The Waves (1931) by Virginia Woolf
33. Mrs Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
34. Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy
35. The Book of Disquiet (1888-1935) by Fernando Pessoa
36. The Fall (1956) by Albert Camus
37. The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) by John Fowles
38. Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka [my review]
39. The English Patient (1992) by Michael Ondaatje
40. Dubliners (1914) by James Joyce
41. Herzog (1964) by Saul Bellow
42. Hills like White Elephants (1927) by Ernest Hemingway
43. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Ernest Hemingway
44. The Encyclopaedia of the Dead (1983) by Danilo Kiš
45. Ransom (2009) by David Malouf
46. The Colour Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
47. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (1947) by TadeuszBorowski
48. Alice in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
49. The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) by Samuel Johnson
50. Flight Without End (1927) by Joseph Roth
51. Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun
52. A Book of Memories (1986) by Péter Nádas
53. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) by Muriel Spark
54. A House for Mr Biswas (1961) by V S Naipaul
55. Midnight’s Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
56. Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) by J M Coetzee
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″He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.“
- J. R. R. Tolkien
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Librairie du pont neuf, Toulouse
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