natura fabularis

[ametoraeye]

[sentimentalbeing2001]

[yohjimuse]

SO GOOOOOOOD

[loonamoonland]

[nixscriptum]

[jasmindas]

[pocketfullofpoesies]

.

i really wish

this was

a box

of chocolates...

.

~ @pocketfullofpoesies

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[frrenzetic]

[izvletchenie]

Dieric Bouts, The Ascension of the Elect (detail), c. 1470

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

Just to complete the picture, let me add that the wind was from the northwest at five miles an hour, Venus was in the ascendancy, and the Moon was decidedly gibbous. You can draw your own conclusions from this.

– Robert Sheckley, from “Protection,” Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley (NYRB, 2012)

[thepoetryofmaterialthings]

(via (1) Instagram)

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

In the photograph Collins took, there's the lunar module carrying Armstrong and Aldrin, just behind them the moon, and some two hundred and fifty thousand miles beyond that the earth, a blue half-sphere hanging in all blackness and bearing mankind. Michael Collins is the only human being not in that photograph, it is said, and this has always been a source of great enchantment. Every single other person currently in existence, to mankind's knowledge, is contained in that image; only one is missing, he who made the image.

– Samantha Harvey, Orbital

[bluebeardsbride-archive]

“A rose is a rose is a rose, but not to the perfumer. Russian rose is softer, Indian thinner, Egyptian richer, Turkish sweeter, Bulgarian rounder, Moroccan brighter. Jasmine sambac is sharp, while grandiflorum jasmine is more full-bodied. Deepgreen Tasmanian boronia has a rich herbal scent, whereas the bright orange kind has a sweet-tart citrusy odor. Spanish, Tunisian, and French orange flower absolute all vary in sweetness and depth.”

—

Mandy Aftel, Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume

[pairs-studio]

[ametoraeye]

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

"Is there anything noteworthy about Boomer Flats?" he asked the girl then. "Has it any unique claim to fame?"

"Yes," the girl said. "This is the place that the comets come back to."

– R. A. Lafferty, from “Boomer Flats,” Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? Stories About Secret Places and Mean Men (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974)

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

Ears pressed against an eggshell.

Listening to the arguments inside.

– Nat Cassidy, from “Generation,” I Know a Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours (Shortwave Publishing, 2026)

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

"Now who's telling stories within the story?"

— Sjón, Codex 1962: Thine Eyes Did See My Substance (A Love Story)