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ode to may, tathev simonyan

#may #Tathev Simonyan

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Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology Of Water: A Memoir

#lidia yuknavitch #the chronology of water #memory

forthegothicheroine

A explicitly abusive version of [King Lear] robs us of our ability to feel for Lear. But an explicitly sympathetic Lear robs us of the ability to feel for his daughters. So I think the best version of Lear is exactly the one that Shakespeare wrote: ambiguous. It's the only version in which each character is frustratingly, but fascinatingly, complex. Cordelia loves her tyrannical and mercurial father, but she can't bring herself to say it. It's a paradox- and a question- so rich and sad that Shakespeare required a whole play to explore it.

Jillian Keenan, Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love

#shakespeare #king lear

derangedrhythms

What appals me is the return of my madness, my paralysis, my fear & vision of the worst—cowardly withdrawal, a mental hospital, lobotomies.

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956–1963 ⁠— Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse Beuscher, 4th February 1963

#sylvia plath #the letters of sylvia plath #letters

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Some Signs that Life is Demanding Your Attention

1. The same themes and patterns (which are usually self-defeating) keep reappearing, or repeating themselves.

2. Unresolved issues and heatache from your past, are stopping you from living and enjoying your life now. These are triggered more frequently and easily today.

3. You have trouble coping with powerful emotions – like overwhelming anger or excessive crying.

4. You feel anxious, restless and dissatisfied, and feel as if something needs to change in your life.

5. You feel dazed or shocked by something that has happened, and can’t pick up the pieces and “be normal” again.

6. You keep pushing down your feelings, and denying your emotions, but they keep resurfacing – and just won’t go away.

7. You make superficial changes as you’re scared of digging deeper. - but that doesn’t work for long as the real problem’s still there.

8. You can’t let go of something that meant a lot to you – a disappointment, or a failure, or a past relationship.

#counseling #mentalhealth #mentalillness

quotemadness

“It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that’s why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It’s not the pain they’re getting over, it’s the love.”

— Melina Marchetta

#melina marchetta #love

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Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

#andrea gibson #hope

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Jason Schneiderman

it’s amazing how death is always around the corner, or not even so far away as that, hiding in the little pleasures that some of us would go so far as to say are the only things keeping us alive

#jason schneiderman #death

thisgeisha

“Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, ‘You’re crooked. You’ve always been crooked and you’ll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!’ said the straight tree. He said, ‘I’m tall and I’m straight.’ And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, ‘Cut all the straight trees.’ And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.”

— Wristcutters: A Love Story (via echoboomer)

#wristcutters a love story #wristcutters

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From How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee

#ghosts #dead #grief

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Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Heavy”

#alive

shisasan

June 4th, 1923 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941) originally published: 1953

#virginia woolf

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“Not all writing is cursed, but surely all of it is haunted. Literature is a catacomb of past readers, past writers, past books. Traces of those who are responsible for creation linger among the words on a page; Shakespeare can’t hear us, but we can still hear him (and don’t ghosts wander through those estate houses upon the moors unaware that they’ve died?). […] Of all of the forms of expression that humanity has worked with—painting, music, sculpture—literature is the eeriest. Poetry and fiction are both incantation and conjuration, the spinning of specters and the invoking of ghosts; it is very literally listening to somebody who isn’t there, and might not have been for a long while. All writing is occult, because it’s the creation of something from ether, and magic is simply a way of acknowledging that—a linguistic practice, an attitude, a critical method more than a body of spells. We should be disquieted by literature; we should be unnerved.”

— Ed Simon, from his essay “Who’s There?: Every Story Is a Ghost Story”, published in The Millions, August 18, 2021

#ed simon #on literature #on poetry #literature

wilwheaton

“Living through the Trump II presidency is an exercise in repeated loss and extended mourning for what is gone — while being daily confronted with the farcical and the absurd.”

— The Mounting Toll and Absurdity of Trumpism

#donald trump #trumpism