#carsons

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

[carsonzworld]

Repost, I forgot his moles...

[thermodynamic-comedian]

me when the character has a uniquely fucked mindset. me when the character's fundamental views of how the world works lead to them being hurt and/or hurting others and not seeing the problem with this. me when the character is a little freak who does weird shit because their beliefs, inspired entirely by their environment, are fuckeddddd

[typewriter-worries]

The Glass Essay, Anne Carson | Molly Brodak, Molly Brodak

[petaltexturedskies]

Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (tr. by Anne Carson)

[wordscanbeenough]

Anne Carson, from "Tag"

[feminineambrosia]

Beautiful face and body, wow!

[pocket-goose]

she gets me she just does

[watermotif]

So,​ your life. There it is before you – possibly a road, a ribbon, a dotted line, a map – let’s say you’re 25, then you make some decisions, do things, have setbacks, have triumphs, become someone, a bus driver, a professor of Indo-European linguistics, a pirate, a cosmetologist, years pass, maybe in a family maybe not, maybe happy maybe not, then one day you wake up and you’re seventy. Looking ahead you see a black doorway. You begin to notice the black doorway is always there, at the edge, whether you look at it or not. Most moments contain it, most moments have a sort of sediment of black doorway at the bottom of the glass. You wonder if other people are seeing it too. You ask them. They say no. You ask why. No one can tell you.

A minute ago you were 25. Then you went ahead getting the life you want. One day you looked back from 25 to now and there it is, the doorway, black, waiting.

— anne carson, gloves on!

[romarisea]

Anne Carson, from Red Doc> [ID in alt text]

[mournfulroses]

Sophocles, from "Electra: A Tragedy," translated by Anne Carson

[apoemeveryday]

on hedonism by anne carson

[valtsv]

if a job says "we're like a family" you have to assume it's the kind where the parents eat their young

[mirefireflies]

“the ending is always the same”

war of the foxes - richard siken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology

[petaltexturedskies]

Sappho, If Not Winter: Fragments of Sappho (tr. by Anne Carson)

[wordscanbeenough]

Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband