#literary excerpt

[erotizmas]

caligula by albert camus

[newvision]

from Acts Of Desperation by Megan Nolan

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

30 NOVEMBER: "And spangled is the only word for this night of seeping cold."

~ John Lewis-Stempel, Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field

[lntlmate]

Haring-isms — Keith Haring — edited by Larry Warsh

[old-oblivion]

I  love  anyone—at  least  a  little—who touches me. Anyone who touches me gives me something in that instant: my body.

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh

[paperbacksunday]

If you want to create the common sense that comes from twenty years of being in the world, you need to devote twenty years of the task. You can’t assemble an equivalent collection of heuristics in less time; experience is algorithmically incompressible.

Ted Chiang, ‘The Lifecycle of Software Subjects’ in Exhalation

[callmewinged]

Wednesday, July 22, Halifax

In going down the old bank, a littleish, tipsyish-looking, young man stopped me. Fancying I was going to strike him with my umbrella, he stepped back, saying, "If you do, I'll drop you." I quietly walked off, adding, "I should like to see you."

~from the diaries of Anne Lister

[erotizmas]

caligula by albert camus