music, film, and childhood trauma

adult, bi, she/her, living with cancer

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[strictly-insomnimaniacal]

Antonin Artaud, The Theatre and its Double

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[cloudswamp]

the poem of st. francis of assisi, antonin artaud

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[edwordsmyth]

Antonin Artaud

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[cloudswamp]

eighteen seconds, antonin artaud

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[feral-ballad]

The revelation of loneliness, the omnipresent, unanswerable feeling that I was in a state of lack, that I didn’t have what people were supposed to, and that this was down to some grave and no doubt externally unmistakable failing in my person:

Olivia Laing, from The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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[growing-orbits-blog]

“Somewhere unwritten poems wait, like lonely lakes not seen by anyone.”

— Anna Kamieńska, from her notebook (1968), in Astonishments, translated by Grażyna Drabik and David Curzon

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[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in "A Writer's Diary," originally pub. in January 1953

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[majestativa]

Forced to open up before her the map of Love, and to experience the sentimentalities he had demonstrated in their most puerile and atrocious aspect, he had to elevate, with great effort, contemplation to pure ecstasy and, catlike, transform kisses into bites.

JOSÉPHIN PÉLADAN — The Ritual of Love, featured in The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France [Ed. Asti Hustvedt], transl. by Rachel Ashton, (1998)