Triflin'

My name's Mark, and I struggle with being.

[lettersxcaffeine]

"I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party, and I attended with my real face." -Franz Kafka

[unsureofu]

on loving someone who has passed

a self portrait in letters by anne sexton / poem by louise glück / achilles and patroclus by @maieste / all about love by bell hooks / blue sun by nina mouawad / albert camus correspondance to maria casarès / un homme et une femme by stephan sinding / the gods show up by michael kinnucan / the chronology of water: a memoir by lidia yuknavitch

[soracities]

“Like any unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real when I’m not being touched.”

— Natalie Wee, from ‘Lonely’, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines

[psikonauti]

Enrique Martínez Celaya (Cuban, b. 1964)

The Will, 2022

Oil and wax on canvas

[feral-ballad]

I wish I was only as cruel as the first time I noticed I was cruel,

Kaveh Akbar, from Pilgrim Bell; “Forfeiting my Mystique”

[wedarkacademia]

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[yesseptember]

Spring in Bac Ha, Vietnam by Khánh Phan

[soracities]

Paul Eluard, “Seven Poems of Love at War”, Selected Poems (trans. Gilbert Bowen)

[Text ID: “And the night that does us wrong The night when the bed grows hollow Empty of solitude The future of an agony.”]

[luthienne]

Gregory Orr, from Poetry as Survival

[Text ID: —that language itself is a form of sight.]

[sosuperawesome]

chel_faust on Instagram

[maryvangils]

Edvard Munch, Toward the Forest, 1897c-1913, colour woodcut from two woodblocks

[dltnart]

at Montauk, New York https://www.instagram.com/p/CaipocOgzU8/?utm_medium=tumblr

[inrumford]

this needs more love - great shot

[metamorphesque]

― David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

[thecollectibles]

Fallen Giant by Calder Moore

[metamorphesque]

— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

[weltenwellen]

James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

[weltenwellen]

Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927

[ipd]

[rollership]

Lenseman series E. E. Smith

Hiroshi Manabe