the vanishing half.

welcome to my quote / excerpt blog. while i do plan to post occasionally; it's quickly become an obsession of mine, and now, i wish to hoard... (i also curate many other, yet quite similar blogs—i'd more than love to redirect you to!)

[bloodservility]

𝙱𝙻𝙾𝙶 𝙸𝙽𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽,

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[buffysummers]

The Borgias | 3.10 - "The Prince"

[arsanimarum]

Olga Freidenberg, “Diary, 1912,” in The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg 1910-1954.

[tzionessel]

Duality

Tzion Essel

[charnel-grounds]

Christopher Lee and Melissa Stribling in Horror of Dracula (1958).

[antimimetic]

Eugene Thivier, “Le Cauchemar”, 1894.

[cor-ardens-archive]

“Here lie the seeds of Gothic fantasy, in that desire for the ‘other’, perceived as needed to complete the ‘self’, is transgressive desire which leads to self destruction.”

— Avril Horner & Sue Zlosnik, ‘Family Gothic’ in Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination (via rotgospels)

[seraphinesaintclair]

Clark Ashton Smith, “Lament Of The Stars”

[bloodservility]

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future

[bloodservility]

More coming soon (I’ve issues with formatting—),

[bloodservility]

— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964–1980

[seraphinesaintclair]

Seraphine Saintclair, “Undreamed”

[bloodservility]

— C. G. Jung, Man and His Symbols; “The Oracle dream”

[frackoviak]

I Do It Exceptionally Well… I Do It So It Feels Like Hell Mariacarla Boscono by Thomas Lohr | 032c #34 S/S 2018 

[bloodservility]

— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931–1934

[bloodservility]

— Anaïs Nin, Incest: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932–1934 (October 23, 1932)

[bloodservility]

— Anaïs Nin, Incest: From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932–1934 (Nov. 16, 1932)