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[prophetic-memory]

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

[thirteenth-door]

Facsimile Seasons

like clockwork 

facsimile seasons move across pages

standstill forever foreign to

the fact of permanence

maybe you do not love me as much as the 

being of yourself 

facsimile 

season

and i am still here

waiting on binaries big and small to let you know

that i will

always have waited

machine divine skin and all

facsimile

back to me

search season 

seating reasons.

welcome to the world 

little one 

the work for god

done by

man

facsimile season.

[unheardoracle]

writers love trains because they're one of the few places where "get on and see what happens" is considered a reasonable plan

[belovedapollo]

from Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan

[wanderer526768]

A review on "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield

Okay so they are a booklr account now?

Well I'm doing what I like and I like reading as much as I love watching movies.

The book I finished today was "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield. The book (published by Penguin in the series of "Little Black classics") consisted of two other stories alongside of "Miss Brill": "A Marriage Á la Mode" and "The Stranger." All three of them were very strong stories and here is what I think of them.

Although I liked this book I sometimes found it a little bit hard to understand, maybe it is because I have problems with my attention span or because I tend to have a hard time with modernist writing styles, maybe both. However I must say that despite these issues the stories caught my attention quite well. They could make me experience the emotional state those characters had been through. I was specifically sad for Miss Brill.

The book as many other modernist writings focuses on individual loneliness. You can feel the characters' suffering in solitude while they are surrounded by so many people. The stories are not devoid of dialogues but then again, does forming dialogues make us less lonely? I feel like Mansfield shows these states way too well. That's what I like about her. But unfortunately this book was a little bit underwhelming and slow for me so I withheld some points. Other than my personal shenanigans I think it was a nice read.

And it didn't escape from my attention that Mansfield told two stories from a male perspective, one shifting from male to female. That was also interesting. She was talking about how the male partners saw the female partners like a "thing" and at some part the character actually used "something" for referring his wife. It was interesting to see although we could see the sadness of male characters that we could relate to we could also see them objectifying their female partners. I think the struggle never changes, even the people you see the closest might be referring to you as "something his". Such a pity. Of course the meaning might change with the perspective you choose to see the stories from. My feminist approach kind of caused me to interpret it like this even though the quote might also be interpreted as quite sentimental.

P.S. : Please tell me what you agree or don't agree on kindly. I am all for criticism but I will not entertain mindless insults. And please did Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf have a situationship??!! I didn't know that!!

[alwaysbeenjessica]

summer has just been lots of coffee & books

[alwaysbeenjessica]

moonrise kingdom

[victusinveritas]

Some things about reading from around the web.