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Desert Hearts (Donna Deitch | 1985)

english-idylls

From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895).

cavatas

Three Black Horses, Leo Gestel

rotgospels

Fluent in English and God’s silence

nevver

Epitaph, Brendon Burton (new book!)

eesirachs

i think i read something from this site, but i cant find it now. an acedote, if you will, about Enoch who had a habit of walking while talking to god or praying and then one day he and god got so lost in the conversation and god said "it is late, maybe its time now that you should come round to My place" and that is why he was ascended to heaven

ive always loved that little story, such relationship with god..

i have not heard this, but why not: this god is known to wander. and when enoch moves into heaven, leaving no corpse or rot, the hebrew word is וַיִּתְהַלֵּךְ (and he walked). though here there is no heaven, not yet—there is only a "taken"-ness to these bodies that are negated by god

dk-thrive

“The wind is careless — uncertain — I like the wind — it seems more like me than anything else — I like the way it blows things around roughly — even meanly — then the next minute seems to love everything.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe, “Georgia O’Keeffe’s Wartime Texas Letters,” by Amy Von Lintel. Texas A&M University Press, 2020 (via The Hammock Papers)

this-old-stomping-ground

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crystallizing your simpler clearer version of life—only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead

I feel that a real living form is the result of the individual’s effort to create the living thing out of the adventure of his spirit into the unknown—where it has experienced something—felt something—it has not understood—and from that experience comes the desire to make the unknown—known. By unknown—I mean the thing that means so much to the person that wants to put it down—clarify something he feels but does not clearly understand—sometimes he partially knows why—sometimes he doesn’t—sometimes it is all working in the dark—but a working that must be done—Making the unknown—known—in terms of one’s medium is all-absorbing—if you stop to think of the form—as form you are lost—The artist’s form must be inevitable—You mustn’t even think you won’t succeed—Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing—and keeping the unknown always beyond you—catching crystallizing your simpler clearer version of life—only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead—that you must always keep working to grasp—the form must take care of its self if you can keep your vision clear.

— Georgia O'Keeffe, in a letter that Georgia O’Keeffe wrote to her friend and fellow artist, Ansel Adams, in 1937 published in Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters (New York Graphic Society, January 1, 1987) (via The Hammock Papers)