Buchstaben auf Papier

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[emustelidae]

Historical Context? Costumes? Etiquette? I don't care about any of these. My main reason nowadays for gravitating towards classics is the 0% chance of the author having or ever getting a social media account.

[readmydesire]

from letters to a young poet by rainer maria rilke

[die-weltbuehne]

“Deutschland ist ein gespaltenes Land. Ein Teil von ihm sind wir.”

– aus Deutschland, Deutschland über alles (1929) von Kurt Tucholsky

[alraunahomestead]

@byanettekristina

[recreationaldivorce]

fantasy authors love to daringly ask: what if racism was correct

[vitrola]

[geopsych]

Pictures from a September morning at the lake.

[harmed]

[eternalgirlscout]

earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i'll often be in the middle of a novel and think "man i wish this shit were more ambiguous" and had to reiterate twice that i wasn't being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don't bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i'm not kidding

[dailyclassicart]

Patrick von Kalckreuth - "The North Sea" (1955)

[disc80s]

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[inag-mag]

Wall paintings by Eron

[huariqueje]

Wave in Backlight - Peter Witt

German , b. 1966 -

Oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm.

[disc80s]

“you can’t forget your mother tongue” okay but have you considered bilinguals and polyglots whose first language isn’t english and whose development during adolescence was shaped by consuming content and media only in english and have ever since viewed that second language, foreign to their own, as a better outlet for their emotions and thoughts? as Yiyun Li said “it is hard to feel in an adopted language, yet impossible in my native language.”

[disc80s]

from Yiyun Li’s To Speak Is To Blunder

[ostensiblynone]

We have a generation of writers who have watched more movies, television, and footage of human life than they have experienced of that life firsthand. Even their understanding and experience of their own inner lives originates in skits, memes, and video essays. They have no philosophers or prophets. They have YouTubers and influencers, and in this shallow, highly processed and highly mediated experience of consciousness, there is no thought. Merely the telepathic beaming of image from the screen to the interior of the person’s mind.

—Brandon Taylor, against casting tape fiction

[firstfullmoon]

https://www.instagram.com/subwayhands/

[metamorphesque]

Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.