shelving space

festina lente, dear reader. come home. (time-before-land)

[thirdity]

“Fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it, too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night

[woodstocksnoopy]

[petaltexturedskies]

Anais Nin, In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

[nixscriptum]

[fyeahgothicromance]

“Two fears dominate this Gothic world, the fear of terrible separateness and the fear of unity with some terrible Other. They are embodied in two classic formulas of the ghost story: the heroine’s terrifying discovery that she is all alone and her subsequent discovery that -horror of horrors! - she is not alone.”

— Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic; Eugenia C. Delamotte

[bookaddict24-7]

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”

― Jeanette Winterson

[tristealven]

“When people ask me what Emily Dickinson poems are about, I want to run away and hide, simply because for me, some poems are not about the ‘about’. They are metaphysical spells that you hold close and don’t really want to elaborate on. They help you to go on when you have nothing else left to go on with, the kind of poems you remember even when you don’t want to remember them.”

— Ilya Kaminsky, before reading ‘hope is the thing with feathers’ (via juliens-bakery)

[days-of-reading]

Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

[quotespile]

“I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name ‘em, I ate ‘em.”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

[cannibalings]

film adaptations of classic literature should be low budget and the actors should be a bunch of people i’ve never seen and will never see again. this or die

[moodsandmatters]

what’s she reading?

[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

[shakespearesdaughters]

[totallybowoa]

february 14, 2025 : "i would have fought you forever. i would have wrestled you through time. i would have turned you, and been turned. i would do anything. i have done so much, and would have done as much again, and more. and yet here i am, a fool, writing you one last time, and here you are, a fool, reading me. we're one, at least, in folly. (...) love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down." final rating : ★★★★★.

[huariqueje]

Bright Morning - Kaoru Yamada 

Japanese , b. 1975 -

Oil on canvas

[pintoras]

“Poets can look at a painting and understand it without having it spelled out [and] painters can read poetry… . People say, I don’t understand what it means, about John Ashbery’s poetry. Painters would never say that… . The idea of ‘I don’t understand what it means,’ looking at abstract painting and saying, ‘Explain it to me, what does it mean?’ You don’t say that, and you don’t ask people to explain music. And so, poets, painters, composers don’t need explanation. Explanations are for other people … burdened by logic.”

— Elaine de Kooning in Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

x