DON’T SLEEP TO DREAM

johanna | xxii | pisces edits — tags

[pahpens]

THE SECRET HISTORY: SCENE 1/?

the idea of living there, of not having to go back ever again to asphalt and shopping malls and modular furniture; of living there with charles and camilla and henry and francis and maybe even bunny; of no one marrying or going home or getting a job in a town a thousand miles away or doing any of the traitorous things friends do after college; of everything remaining exactly as it was, that instant—the idea was so truly heavenly that i’m not sure i thought, even then, it could ever really happen, but i like to believe i did.

[darkdove]

when fleabag said “I love you” and then the priest said “it’ll pass” I had no choice but to go completely insane in my bedroom

[psychonautical]

Joanna Pallaris

[there-is-still-some-liquor-left]

when welcome to night vale said: “Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you. The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first, and settles in as the gentle present. This now, this us, we can cope with that. We can do this together you and I.”

[yellowpoet]

i love you. im glad we exist in the same slice of time and space.

[scandireader]

23-01-2020 | In Amsterdam - some pictures from my walk

[weltenwellen]

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh

[sheis]

based on atla : appa

[kudchesh]

The Sorrows of Young Werther - Robert Gligorov

[dame-de-pique]

Transit of Mercury, November 5 1868

[vintageeveryday]

A student reading at his desk, smoking a cigarette, 1956. Photographed by Thurston Hopkins for Picture Post.

[theradioghost]

when the times get rough and I lose sight of the goal i just. reread “the orange” by wendy cope again & remember. that’s where I’m going folks. sooner or later, whatever it takes.

[theradioghost]

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange— The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half.

And that orange, it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park. This is peace and contentment. It’s new.

The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all the jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I’m glad I exist.

– “The Orange,” Wendy Cope

[nemfrog]

A cat’s eye, at night, A, and by day, B. Elementary biology : descriptive and experimental. 1907. Internet Archive

[kuboe-deactivated20231023-deact]

What’s the point of man if he is not, at least, a little bit slutty

[divinevivienleigh]

Vivien Leigh as Titania (with Ralph Richardson as Bottom) in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Old Vic, 1937. Photo by John Everard.

[loveserum]

I can have a little cry on the bathroom floor...as a treat

[illinoisrbml]

April, “the cruellest month”, is also National Poetry Month! Read our latest blog post for more about T. S. Eliot: https://nonsolusblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/april-the-cruellest-month-is-also-national-poetry-month/

Eliot, T.S. The Waste Land. (Richmond, Surrey: Printed and published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, Hogarth House, Paradise Road, 1923) 811 Eℓ4w1923: http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_3602870/Description

Read The Waste Land on the Poetry Foundation’s website: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/176735