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Oh damn..

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yeah as soon as I wake up no longer fatigued for the first time in my life I'll be set

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Katja Kemnitz: Too Much Love (2016)

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they're so fucking real for this

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American Football writing songs in Champaign, Illinois

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"I want to go to a town where nobody knows me"

One Million Yen Girl (2008) — dir. by Yuki Tanada

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The Hellenistic Theater of Pergamon, Bergama, Turkey.

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Let me paint you a picture. Imagine you are a roughly 11 year old child in 2004 in Ireland and you're in the hospital with the flu or a broken arm or something. and then Bob Dylan enters your room and starts playing the harmonica at you

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T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

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To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.

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— Louise Glück, from “The Untrustworthy Speaker.”

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On becoming someone else

i. War of the Foxes, Richard Siken / ii., v., viii., xi. Leisure, Hannah, Does Not Agree with You, Hannah Gamble / iii. unknown / iv. Mimmo Paladino / vi. Book 20e, In between here and there, Beata Wehr / vii. unknown / ix. unknown / x. @heartlessqueen

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Do I want to be right or to be kind?

Jenny Holzer/ Angie McMahon, “Slow Mover”/ @thesofthuman/ Fenne Lily, “Hollywood and Fear”/ Mary Oliver, “Spring”/ Lady Lamb, “Heaven Bent”/ Jenny Holzer

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“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”

— Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook” (1966) (in “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”)

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Thomas Mann, from “Death in Venice”, originally published c. 1912.

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All houses are haunted. Everywhere I’ve ever lived has been haunted

1. Ash, Tracy K Smith 2. Anatomy, Kitty Horrorshow 3. Little talks, Of Monsters and Men 4. Doctor Who 5. Why are you haunted: a survey, Joan Tierney 6. I know the end, Phoebe Bridgers 7. Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film, Barry Curtis 8. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig 9. Things We Say in the Dark, Kirsty Logan 10. Ghosts in the attic