iâm kinda happy but i also wanna get hit by a car at the same time
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Stranger Things
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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we're not kids anymore.

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iâm kinda happy but i also wanna get hit by a car at the same time
âI remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere.â
â Louise GlĂŒck, from âUnpainted Doorâ in Poems 1962-2012
âAnd you have the nerve to say you love me more than I love you. Well, anyway.â
â Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West wr. c. November 1927
When any relationship reaches these heights â€ïž
âAngry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.â
â F. Scott Fitzgerald
I remember this
Iâve watched a video essay on the over-analysis of films lately which really got me thinking about the extent to which people/critics âoveranalyzeâ some parts/aspects of literature in particular, like seeing/interpreting meaning in something when it was explicitly not intended to be there. Iâd love to hear what you think about it!!
Iâm going to leave Umberto Eco take this one for me, shall I ? I entirely agree with his Limits of Interpretation (1990) :
The text is a system, and as system it has necessary constraints.Â
âA text is a place where the irreducible polysemy of symbols is in fact reduced because in a text symbols are anchored to their context. The medieval interpreters were right: one should look for the rules which allow a contextual disambiguation of the exaggerated fecundity of symbols. [âŠ]
Any act of interpretation is a dialectic between openness and form, initiative on the part of the interpreter and contextual pressure.â
The reader is free to interpret, but this freedom does not deny the existence of the interpreted product (and its natural limits) :
âThe aesthetics of reception maintains that a literary work is enriched by the various interpretations it underwent along the centuries [âŠ] and does not deny that every interpretation can and must be compared with the textual object and with the intention operis.â
because :Â
âTo critically interpret a text means to read it in order to discover, along with our reactions to it, something about its nature.â
In short,Â
âAny act of freedom on the part of the reader can come after, not before, the acceptance of the literal meaning of lexical [and more] itemsâ constraint.âÂ
Iâd like to thank Umberto and my obsession with Reader Response Theory for this very lazy exposĂ©.
Read âBecauseâ.
âIâve decided I donât always have to be writing. I let myself live and try to let go of the pressure to always physically write. In some ways it feels like Iâm collecting feeling. Thatâs not to say I donât sit down and try regularly to get something on the page, but it might not look like a poem. It might look like writing in a journal about what Iâve seen and heard that day. That process helps me feel more willing to listen to whatâs possible rather than predetermine what I think I should be on the page.â
âAnalicia Sotelo, in âWilder Forms: Our Fourteenth Annual Look at Debut Poetsâ in the January/February issue of Poets & Writers Magazine (2019); read the extended version on pw.org!
COLLECTING FEELING. YES
Bertolt Brecht, from Selected Poems: 1913-1958; âSentimental Song No. 78,â
this is where they can bury me indeed. I am gentler now with the authors who write the same stories of the one they love. like fitzgerald.Â
Solitary shopkeepers, Hong Kong 2018.
- Walt Whitman
When a note you jotted down for yourself years ago resurfaces right when you need it.
Nouvelle vague, Jean-Luc Godard, 1990
âYou never got what you wanted; you just learned to get by without it.â
â Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You
This will not be me
honestly a good partner isnât necessarily someone who loves the exact same things you love but rather someone who is willing to listen to you ramble on and on about a particular subject that youâre passionate about even if they have little to no interest in it
It is also someone who might get bored and donât have the capacity to listen to too much of it at first, but really want to. And tries over time to get better at listening, because they know you care about it.
18/Dec/2018
Iâm so unapologetic about my love for love. Why should I dim my intensity? Why should I restrict my heart when it lives within everything?
I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase âIn these days of political correctnessâŠâ talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, âThatâs not actually anything to do with âpolitical correctnessâ. Thatâs just treating other people with respect.â
Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase âpolitically correctâ wherever we could with âtreating other people with respectâ, and it made me smile.Â
You should try it. Itâs peculiarly enlightening.
I know what youâre thinking now. Youâre thinking âOh my god, thatâs treating other people with respect gone mad!â
Happy Valentineâs Day.
It feels like itâs time to repost this.
One Hour Photo (2002)
Thatâs the way it is: if two people want to be together, theyâll find a way. Theyâll forge a way.
Shobha Rao, An Unrestored Woman: And Other Stories (via booksqouted)
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane (via booksqouted)
I am proud that I still do. and guard my pleasure in small things fiercely