February 2012
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Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch. And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s, My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened. He said, Marie,...
“A day or two after the trip Scott brought his book over. It had a garish dust...”
– Ernest Hemingway’s review of The Great Gatsby in A Moveable Feast
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missing san francisco
hazy slopy mystery town.
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“I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the...”
– James Joyce, The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (via seabois)
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“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty...”
– Sylvia Plath (via misswallflower)
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“The center of the loaf is sweet, the golden crust divine.
Share me a crust, a...”
– Linus van Pelt
January 2012
19 posts
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spending the afternoon with amory blaine
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“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via growing-orbits)
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December 2011
36 posts
“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people. Once, in the park, when...”
– “Raise High The Roofbeam, Carpenters” JDS
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“The Man-Moth”
Here, above,
cracks in the buildings are filled with...”
– Elizabeth Bishop
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chillwave replied to your post: well
can’t wait until The Graduate 2: Decisions Have Consequences.
I’d pay 9.75 for that ticket. And sneak in a purse burrito.
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hasshegotyousnowed answered your question: well
seriously! why do they have to wind up pursuing what will most likely be the same sort of loveless marriage their parents have?
EXACTLY. Plus they barely know each other — they’ve been on one date? It’s just desperate and awful.
well
i just watched the graduate and it tricked me like it always does by being really funny the first half and then turning into the saddest thing ever.
cheer me up.
“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it...”
– Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer (via seabois)
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“For most of us, there is only the unattended
Moment, the moment in and out of...”
– T. S. Eliot, from “The Dry Salvages” in The Four Quartets
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