Someplace new.
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How could she ever have believed in the flow of time? She had thought time flowed! Now she finds it funny. It’s obvious that time spins around like skirts whirling in a dance. Like a linden top twirled onto a table and sustained in motion there by the reverential eyes of children.
Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob, tr. Jennifer Croft
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Never Lost By Bryan Minear
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𝒾𝓃𝓃𝑜𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒹𝒶𝓎𝓈
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit
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Cristina Peri Rossi, tr. by Diana P. Decker, from These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women; "Evohe"
[Text ID: "I feel something undefined"]
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Izumi Shikibu, tr. by Kenneth Rexroth & Ikuko Atsumi, from Women Poets of Japan
[Text ID: “I keep my heart burning”]
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Friends
“Thank you Sergius…For doing all this.”
“It’s what we do.” He stated. “That, and make bad jokes.”
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wc: 3,799 | key part of devotion’s paralysis (wedding plot)
The airship would arrive in half a bell. Elliot stood against the railing of Ul'dah’s landing, envying the people who hurried from the lounge to reunite with disembarking passengers. But they had waited, too, like him. He could not fault any for that. How much of his life had he spent waiting?
All of it, he supposed.
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I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.
Margaret Atwood
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Junelezen Day 4: New Adventure
I feel the pull of distant lands. The plight of distant peoples. I wish to be more than a shield to Ishgard alone....
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Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)
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Job
“Look. I’m sorry, but I’m not some kind of idiot, and I don’t fuck around. I wasn’t going to let him hurt me.”
“If I thought he was going to hurt you, I’d be disposing of his body. I don’t fuck around either.”
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