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[invisiblestories]

We abide by cultural directives that urge us: clarify each thought, each experience, so that you can cull from them their single, dominant meaning and, in the process, become a responsible adult who knows what he or she thinks. But what I try to show is the opposite: how at every moment, the world presents us with a composition in which a multitude of meanings and realities are available, and you are able to swim, lucid and self-contained, in that turbulent sea of multiplicity.

Richard Foreman, quoted by Maggie Nelson in The Art of Cruelty (via arabellesicardi)

me @ your think pieces 

(via arabellesicardi)

[austinkleon]

I’ve never strolled. I never set out to encounter, I set out to walk. I set out to dispel daily depression. Every afternoon I get low-spirited, and one day I discovered the walk. I had some place to go on the Upper East Side, and I lived downtown on 12th Street. I decided to walk on impulse and it was three miles and it took an hour and I thought, “Oh, this is great, I feel so much better.” Lots of people know this, but I never knew it until I just stumbled on it. And then I began to make deliberate use of it. So I am always walking somewhere. I set myself a destination, and then things happen in the street.

Vivian Gormick (via austinkleon)

[70sscifiart]

Dean Ellis

[librarianwynn]

[housingworksbookstore]

“expression–hunted”

[shampooligan]

the interview just OPENS with this and it completely fucking blindsided me

[gei-r]

wait everyone has seen them right

[peterwknox]

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🕸 (at Winchester Mystery House)

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🐲 (at Flushing–Main Street)

[thelovejournals]

The purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Kurt Vonnegut (via thelovejournals)

[vortexsophia-deactivated2022110]

[and-lo]

relics of old tenants in the radiator.

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city in miniature

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World's Fair ruins 🌐