#theme: naming

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love’s languages

Porpentine Charity Heartscape, PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE

Tennessee Williams, The Vine

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

Andrea Gibson, Maybe I Need You

Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

Celine Sciamma, in an interview with The Independent

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

William Goldman, The Princess Bride

Alain de Botton, On Love

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Andrew Sean Greer, Less

Taylor Swift, illicit affairs

Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

Nizar Qabbani, Language

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A web about how cats are incredible and the best little silly companions

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

Anonymous, Pangur Bán (trans. Seamus Heaney)

Book of Hours, 15th century (link)

Kobayashi Issa, ‘Arise from sleep, old cat’ (trans. Peter Beilenson)

Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

Emperor Uda of Japan, writing about his new kitten in 889AD

via @eatsleepcrap (cut down to text only)

Found on the walls of a bookstore full of cats (via @tmmyhug)

Mamie Dickens, My Father as I Recall Him

The kitten mascot of the aircraft carrier HMS Eagle in the hammock made for her by the ship's sailmaker, c. 1945 (via)

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

Jean Cocteau

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what’s in a name?

Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

Charles Wright, The Fever Toy

Marty Rubin

Neil Gaiman, Coraline

Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

A. L. Kitselman

Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

@riverisnotcool, Call Me By My Name

Elie Weisel, The Gates of the Forest

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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Have u ever read one of the fragment of Sappho? this one "“someone will remember us/ I say even in another time”. Could you create smt based off that feeling? Thanks, adore ur stuff btw

A letter between Gilbert Bradley and Gordon Bowsher, written during WWII (via)

(via)

E. M. Forster, Selected Letters of E. M. Forster: 1879-1920

Sappho, translated by Anne Carson, from If Not, Winter

Laura de Force Gordon (via)

Paul Monette, Borrowed Time

Regina Spektor, Samson

Patricia Cronin, Memorial to a Marriage

Graffiti found in Pompeii (x)

Richard Siken, Little Beast

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Audacity of the Lower Gods

I know salt marshes that move along like one big trembling wing. I've noticed insects shiny as gold in a blues singer's teeth & more keenly calibrated than a railroad watch, but at heart I'm another breed.

The audacity of the lower gods— whatever we name we own. Diversiloba, we say, unfolding poison oak. Lovers go untouched as we lean from bay windows with telescopes trained on a yellow sky.

I'd rather let the flowers keep doing what they do best. Unblessing each petal, letting go a year's worth of white death notes, busily unnaming themselves.

-- Yusef Komunyakaa