Miscellaneous Paris

Writer + Book nerd. Programs Director at 826DC. I do not live in Brooklyn. (Views my own.)

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Books in my apartment

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Red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus, male 

Pismo Beach, CA

3/26/14

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One of my absolute favorite birds. 

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Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Collins, 1985

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Still so beautiful!

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FUCKIN’ AGELESS! 

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Spring Equinox in Chicago by nixerkg 

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Marbled Godwit, Limosa fedoa

Pismo Beach, CA

3/26/14

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Thomas Gunn (via)

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If the twentieth century has taught us anything, it is that power is rarely in the service of the individual, and power is rarely, really, in the service of society to the extent it ought to be. Power is in service of power, and sometimes it’s deployed humanely, and often it’s not.

Kyle Minor

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"What I like about fiction most is that it resists closure and exists, if the reader is willing to engage, as a possible encounter - an encounter that is like meeting a human being."

Eleanor Catton (via) 

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And so for me the act of writing is an exploration, a reaching out, an act of trusting search for the correct incantation that will return me to certain feelings whenever I want them. And of course I have never completely succeeded in finding the correct incantations.

from “Writing a Poem” by Thom Gunn (via tongueoftheworld)

Reading my first selection of Thom Gunn's poems right now and I love him. 

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"...a woman could always be amazing." -from Henry James's "The Ambassadors"

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Villains are just ugly people with power.

Literature, UNC Asheville

Psychosocial Identity Theory in Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights.

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desire to inspire

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An 18th century collection of choir books transcribed by the Augustinian friar Miguel de Aguilar (National Institute of Anthropology and History, Mexico).

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Standing out in a crowd.  Blue winged teal in South Dakota.