the house of st. patience

...or, Adventures In Bookselling. In this blog you will find stuff, and things, and typically the printed word. You should say hello. sidebar image © vladimir clavijo telepnev

[liquidnight]

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7 (1966-1974)

[monkeypants]

[bohemea]

Anna Pavlova

[songsfornightdriving]

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“Circling” | Four Tet

[w0rld-princess]

Sleigh Bells 

[sexkitten4lyf-deactivated201302]

[dawnawakened]

Cloudwalker

[victoriousvocabulary]

CLITHRIDIATE

[adjective]

having the shape of a keyhole.

[David Fleck]

[theotherausten]

[melthedestroyer]

They forgot “esteem and/or regard”!

[inothernews]

It’s like, since being kicked out of the planet gang, it’s decided to form a rival solar system. Good on Pluto, I say.

British neuroscientist and stand-up comedian DEAN BURNETT, remarking on the discovery of a fifth moon around the planet Pluto. (via inothernews)

[seashellgray]

raw with love

little dark girl with  kind eyes  when it comes time to  use the knife  I won’t flinch and  I won’t blame  you,  as I drive along the shore alone  as the palms wave,  the ugly heavy palms,  as the living does not arrive  as the dead do not leave,  I won’t blame you,  instead  I will remember the kisses  our lips raw with love  and how you gave me  everything you had  and how I  offered you what was left of  me,  and I will remember your small room  the feel of you  the light in the window  your records  your books  our morning coffee  our noons our nights  our bodies spilled together  sleeping  the tiny flowing currents  immediate and forever  your leg my leg  your arm my arm  your smile and the warmth  of you  who made me laugh  again.  little dark girl with kind eyes  you have no  knife. the knife is  mine and I won’t use it  yet. 

- charles bukowski

[vegaofthelyre]

“One more move,” she purred, “and this gun goes off!”

[dawnawakened]

by Emir Ozsahin

[foxkitsunevulpes]

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Octopus (RAC Remix) - Bloc Party

[collectivehistory-deactivated20]

Billboard posted in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on December 31, 1943. Oak Ridge was a secret town that housed workers and their families for the Manhattan Project. The town was entirely fenced in, with armed guards posted at all entries (The Atlantic) 

[dawnawakened]

by razorbern

[lostsplendor]

Cigarette Card Starlets of the Jazz Age via The New York Public Library