the dream that comes alive at night

[carbonatedsilence]

here i post inspiration for writing and share my own stories

art blog

[carbonatedsilence]

David Foster Wallace in 1996… yeah.

[dailykafka]

— June 8, 1914 / Letters to Felice, Letter to Grete Bloch

[slowlikehoney1996]

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

[carbonatedsilence]

lately i’ve been feeling that the most important thing in life is defiance of fear

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Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

[huariqueje]

Inside the Plant Shop - Chloe Chlumecky , 2023

Canadian , b. 1999 -

Oil on canvas , 24 x 36 in.

[blossomemotion]

another one of these about being a system… maybe something on grief and being an introject; maybe something on living anyways, too

[neoyorzapoteca]

The design of stars then in the sky. I followed their dreamy instructions. Composed in clusters. Wrote constellations of associations. Loving the world, and needing it, as I did. Wanting to transmute it into shapes. Begging it to— “Stay a little.”

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Break Every Rule (Carole Maso)

[purritt]

from neuroaesthetics: why the brain loves pretty things

[blackcoffeestudies]

Mutual fascination is always a risky business. Lacan suggests that it is the consequence of an imaginary identification in which the self strives to incorporate the other in an act as aggressive as it is loving. It is never clear who, snake or snake charmer, is mesmerized by whom.

Elizabeth Grosz, Jacques Lacan: A feminist introduction

[carbonatedsilence]

Banana Fish, vol. 18

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Joseph Brodsky, 1975

[drchucktingle]

its unfortunate that artists get talked out of their rare perspectives so often. ‘its just not done that way’ someone says and artist goes ‘oh okay guess ill sand that part off.’ bud that is your SPARK. so much of my success is from holding firm on the things i do that were called ridiculous

this timeline CRAVES your rare perspective. it CRAVES the thing that speaks from your heart but ‘isn’t the way things are done.’ when i talk about ‘what is your story OUTSIDE of the text?’ i am speaking of this. your personal tap into the cosmic is your rare perspective

[lux-scriptum]

No, you see, I wish to be an author. Not in marketing. Or an influencer. I wish to tell my stories, be told I did a fantastic job, and then go back to my hovel to scribble some more. I am delicate of constitution and awkward in crowds.

[carbonatedsilence]

from The Dispute between a man and his Ba

ancient Egypt, written approximately during the Middle Kingdom period (2040 to 1782 BC)

[davidhudson]

Happy 89th, Thomas Pynchon.