December 2010
63 posts
Meditation on a Grapefruit by Craig Arnold
To wake when all is possible
before the agitations of the day
have gripped you
To come to the kitchen
and peel a little basketball
for breakfast
To tear the husk
like cotton padding a cloud of oil
misting out of its pinprick pores
clean and sharp as pepper
To ease
each pale pink section out of its case
so...
historians discover tiny numbers and letters in... →
(sympathyfortheartgallery, dihard)
A member of Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage found a musty old book in an antique shop which describes how the Mona Lisa’s eyes are full of various signs and symbols. This prompted the committee to examine high res images of the painting. Sure enough - they found symbols and letters in the eyes! There’s an LV in the left eye, and in the right...
“What is meant by “reality”? It would seem to be something very erratic, very...”
– Virginia Woolf (A Room of One’s Own)
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.”
– Herzog, Saul Bellow (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Strange children should smile at each other and say, ‘Let’s play.’”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tender Is the Night” (via thechocolatebrigade & leda-swanson)
“Clarissa had a theory in those days - they had heaps of theories, always...”
– Virginia Woolf (Mrs. Dalloway)
(via awritersruminations)
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