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Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet / Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953 (Feb. 22, 1932)

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Serge Lutens

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“You know, Jews, when they drop a prayer book are supposed to kiss it. This is what they teach you when you’re very little. It seemed entirely reasonable to me that you would do that. When I was a child I would kiss any book I dropped. When I was a very little child, after I’d read a book I really liked, I’d kiss it. Love is really the word. I think Children’s books are a human emotional experience rather than an intellectual one. You have a human relationship with them. Children have emotional relationships with inanimate objects, which it would be wise to carry on into adulthood. The way a child makes a person out of a doll, which I never did, I made people out of books.”

—Fran Lebowitz to Adam Thometz.

[Follies Of God]

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Big snow (changes) -    Sebastian Blanck , 2022.

American, b. 1976 -

Pen and ink with gouache on paper , 60 x 72 in.

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Alexander Blok

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Margarent Atwood

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going out and about drawing power lines

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Nouns That Have a Religious Quality

A zuihitsu

Lacquer, wood, moss, rock, straw Lacquer can be black or deep orange. A natsume, both a personal item and a high ranking tea utensil for tea powder, was named after its resemblance to the jujube. I have a plastic one I purchased for classes in Niigata, 1972. Moss either in a garden or under a forest tree. I love to discover a clump with “british soldiers,” although now that I look it up, I see the name is for a lichen. Further search—I find the moss is polytrichaceae. One site notes they have teeth! And one kind is known as “bristly haircap.” I might be wrong, considering there are over 12,000 species of moss. But I think I’m right. (There are also “moss imposters.”) Blood Of course, there are common words, although they have little personal meaning anymore: chalice, altar, liturgy— Alter

Also, cross, although the word can be noun (“post with traverse bar” or “a hybrid”), verb, and adjective. The most important object in our whole apartment is a stack of flat stones or a single plain stone around which I tie a tiny bib. R asked why I have such things in several nooks and I told him about Jizo. How they are the Buddhist patron saint of children—hence the bib. We stack stones to help the babies who do not make it to the afterlife and whose task it is to do so. More than blood—cerise, maroon, scarlet, vermillion. More than blood and more than incense, incensed.

—Kimiko Hahn, from Poetry Magazine (October 2023)

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Yentl (1983)

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Letters to Felice - Franz Kafka

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— Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

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the word beloved is like top 5 words in the english language

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"every day it gets harder to find lesbians in my area who haven't been indoctrinated into the transgender cult" that's awesome man i hope it gets harder forever

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“Tattered, Shining” by Seraphine Saintclair

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ana mendieta, 1976