“Do you lie for long hours in reverie, re-creating, living again your past happiness, or does that seem an almost unbearable pastime? Do you get yourself between the pages of a book, and read there of old houses, rains, ferns growing between the grotto rocks, of dark pools and stagnant tanks, of statues at the end of long avenues of cedars, whose brooding arms spread out in layers like dark fungi?” Works for me, especially if the book is this beautiful, two-volume set from Tartarus Press, and the writer is Denton Welch. Dear Denton. #dentonwelch #wherenothingsleeps #shortstories #writer #artist #poet #collector #outsider #autofiction #gayliterature #strangefiction #kent #shanghai #decadence #impermanence #interiorworlds #gothic #war #darkpastoral #fatalism #beauty #tartaruspress #books #bookstagram #bibliophilia #winterevenings https://www.instagram.com/p/B76oY7nHrC3/?igshid=vyyjl5b8ug2k
