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[soundcarvings]

Beautiful gifts

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[shisasan]

Feast of Angels, 1992 © Nobuyoshi Araki / Courtesy Taka Ishii Gallery

[dozydawn]

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 27 February 1929, featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. IV, 1927-1931

[unteriors]

Calle Grande, Minaya, Albacete, Castile-La Mancha.

[lamignonette]

[vlindervin7]

All I can think abt is that one quote that basically just describes that you can’t be your true self in your native language bc there’s too much emotional attachment, but that second languages allow speakers to be truly free with their words

[vlindervin7]

“Some things could only be written in a foreign language; they are not lost in translation, but conceived by it. Foreign verbs of motion could be the only ways of transporting the ashes of familial memory. After all, a foreign language is like art—an alternative reality, a potential world. »

- Svetlana Boym, “Estrangement as a Lifestyle: Shklovsky and Brodsky”

“Bilinguals overwhelmingly report that they feel like different people in different languages. It is often assumed that the mother tongue is the language of the true self. (…) But, it first languages are reservoirs of emotion, second languages can be rivers undammed, freeing their speakers to ride different currents.”

- Love in Translation by Lauren Collins from the New Yorker, August 8 & 15, 2016

[effyeffa]

when ilya kaminski said in an interview “even the shape of my face changed when i began to live inside the english language”

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[ingydars]

paphiopedilum concolor wikipedia

[nourishingbroth]

[randombeautysls]

dance theater of harlem, circa 1970.

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[jfashion-magazines]

FRUiTS 116

March 2007

[theinternetarchive]

california through the eyes of photographer wilson davis ellis, american c. 1940s-50s.

[americaisdead]

winslow, arizona.  november 2021

© tag christof

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